Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives

This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Dow & C.Hanson 'A genius for foretelling': Augustan Austen and Future Fiction; D.Lynch 'England's Jane': The Legacy of Jane Austen in the Fiction of Barbara Pym, Dodie Smith and Elizabeth Taylor; M.Joannou 'The Future of Pemberley': Emma Tennant, the 'Classic Progression' and Literary Trespassing; R.Munfort New Theoretical Approaches to Austen in Contemporary Popular Culture; J.Wells Becoming Jane: The Life of Jane Austen in Contemporary Biography and Film; J.North Letters to Jane: Austen, the Letter, and Twentieth-century Women's Writing; W.May At Home with Jane: Placing Austen in Contemporary Culture; F.James Uses of Translation: The Global Jane Austen; G.Dow The Imperial Economy of Chadha's Bride and Prejudice ; S.Jones 'Bin Laden a Huge Jane Austen Fan': Jane Austen in Contemporary Political Discourse; M.A.O'Farrell 'What Would Jane Do?' Postfeminist Media Uses of Austen and the Woman Reader; S.Cobb Bibliography Index

About the Author :
SHELLEY COBB Lecturer in English and Film, University of Southampton, UK FELICITY JAMES Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Literature, University of Leicester, UK MARY JOANNOU Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing, Anglia Ruskin University, UK STEPHANIE JONES Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, UK DEIDRE SHAUNA LYNCH Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada WILLIAM MAY Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, UK REBECCA MUNFORD Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK JULIAN NORTH Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK MARY ANN O'FARRELL Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University, UK JULIETTE WELLS Associate Professor and Chair of English, Manhattanville College, USA

Review :
"This collection makes a lively contribution to one of the hot topics in contemporary Austen Studies our persistent and multi-faceted refiguring of Jane Austen's reputation, her writings, and her afterlives. These stimulating essays chart the likely and unlikely uses of Jane Austen: her Modernist construction in the early twentieth century, her importance in times of war, her feminist and post-feminist fashioning, her academic and popular appeal, and her recent emergence on the global stage. They celebrate Austen's many transformations: in biography, film, blog, sequels, and literary tourism." Kathryn Sutherland, Professorial Fellow in English, Oxford University, UK "The editors of Uses of Austen, Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson, have succeeded in bringing together a remarkably coherent selection of essays that offer a rich account of the many ways in which Austen has been reimagined over the last century." Richard de Ritter, The BARS Journal