Full Description
Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen's popular appeal and at how she is consumed today in diverse cultural venues such the digisphere, blogosphere, festivals and book clubs. It then offers new approaches to the novels within various critical contexts, including adaptation studies, fan fiction, intertextuality, and more. Collecting these new essays in one volume enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in engagements with Austen in different settings, and will help a comparative approach between the popular and the academic to emerge more fully in Austen studies. The book gathers insights from a range of contributors invested in new reading spaces in order to show the creative ways in which we are all adapting as we continue to read Austen's works.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: 'Gentle humour' to 'savage satire': Austen Obituaries on Her Death, Its Centenary and Bicentenary.- Chapter 3: Jane Austen and Professional Fanfiction.- Chapter 4: Austen Among the Amateurs.- Chapter 5: Virtual Sociability and the Online Austen Classroom.- Chapter 6: Wearing Austen.- Chapter 7: Mr Darcy, Jane Austen's Imperial Man of Feeling.- Chapter 8: Emma, Empire, and the Classics.- Chapter 9: Casting Mr Collins; Or How a Zombie Film Returned Us to the Novel.- Chapter 10: Lady Susan and Love & Friendship: Laughter, Satire and the Impact of Form.- Chapter 11: Blog Softly and Carry a Big Cluebat.- Chapter 12: Virtual Jane Con: An Interview with Bianca Hernandez-Knight.
