ABSTRACT

First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

Introduction

　

Part I

Jane Austen’s Works

  1. Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction

    2. Jodi L. Wyett

  2. Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon

    3. Peter Graham

  3. Pride and Prejudice: Not altogether ‘light & bright & sparkling’

    4. Susan J. Wolfson

  4. The Novelty of Mansfield Park

    5.

    Emily Rohrbach

  5. Emma, a Heroine

    6. George Justice

  6. The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion

    7.

    Michael D. Lewis

  7. The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen’s Letters

    8. Jodi A. Devine

  8. ‘Setting at naught all rules of probable or possible’:　Jane Austen’s ‘Juvenilia’

    9. John C. Leffel

    　

    Part II

    Historicizing Austen: A Sampling

  9. Touching upon Jane Austen’s Politics

    10. Devoney Looser

  10. ‘A Picture of Real Life and Manners’? Austen, Burney, and Edgeworth

    11. Linda Bree

  11. Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel

    12. Elaine Bander

  12. From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen’s Reading

    13. Katie Halsey

  13. Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian

    14.

    Tara Goshal Wallace

  14. From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist Culture, and Narrative

    15. Laura M. White

  15. ‘Bringing her Business Forward’: Jane Austen and Political Economy

    16. Sarah Comyn

  16. Material Goods in Austen’s Novels

    17. Sandie Byrne

  17. Jane Austen and Music

    18. Laura Voracheck

  18. ‘All the Egotism of an Invalid’: Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austen’s Sanditon

    19.

    Sarah Marsh

  19. Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past

    20. Olivia Murphy

  20. They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Austen

    21. Lyndon J. Dominique

    　

    Part III

    Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling

  21. Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the Novels

    22. Adela Pinch

  22. Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen’s Catch and Release

    23. William Galperin

  23. Austen’s Literary Time

    24. Amit Yahav

  24. Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism

    25. Sarah Ailwood

  25. Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-Sacrifice

    26. Kathleen Anderson

  26. ‘Queer Austen’ and Northanger Abbey

    27.

    Susan Celia Greenfield

  27. ‘A Perfectly Swell Romance’: Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in Analogy Criticism

    28. Paula Marantz Cohen

  28. Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu’s　La Famille Elliot (1821)

    29. Rachel Canter

  29. Jane Austen and the Social Sciences

    30. Wendy Jones

    　

    Part IV

    Austen’s Communities: A Sampling

  30. Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line:　'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'

    31. Susan Allen Ford

  31. ‘It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together’: JAS and JASNA

    32. Alice Marie Villaseñor

  32. Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia Reproduction

    33. Christopher C. Nagle　

  33. ‘You do not know her or her heart’:　Minor Character Elaboration in Contemporary Austen Spin-off Fiction

    34. Kylie Mirmohamadi

  34. Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand

    35. Marina Cano

  35. Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis

    36. Laaleen Sukhera

  36. Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities of Colour

    37. Sigrid Michelle Anderson

  37. Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen Fanfiction

    38. Melanie Borrego

    　

    Part V

    Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling

  38. Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century

    39. Michael Gamer and Katrina O’Loughlin

  39. Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and Films

    40. Martha Stoddard Holmes

  40. Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen Online

    41. Gillian Dow and Kim Simpson

  41. Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White Privilege

    42. Tim Black and Danielle Spratt

  42. Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and Secondary Instructors

    43. Juliette Wells

  43. Austen’s Belief in Education: Sōseki, Nogami, and Sensibility

    44. Kimiyo Ogawa

  44. Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program

Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton

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