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Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.
Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy.
Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Austen for Americans, and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams, critical editor and biographer
Chapter 2: Canonizing "the giant Jane": William Dean Howells, interpreter and advocate
Chapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher Hogan, collector and keeper of reading journals
Chapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil G. Hassall, and the building of a transatlantic Austen archive
Afterword: Jane Austen Anew
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