Recreating Jane Austen
Recreating Jane Austen
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Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen's work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen's novels, John Wiltshire examines how they have been transposed and 'recreated' in another age and medium. Wiltshire illuminates the process of 'recreation' through the work of the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, and offers Jane Austen's own relation to Shakespeare as a suggestive parallel. Exploring the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, 'Jane Austen' as a commodity, and offering a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice, this book approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination.
- Written by a well-known commentator on the novels
- Written in a clear, jargon-free style
- Covers a wide range of issues, including recent biographies of Jane Austen, a wide range of recent Austen movies, and 'Jane Austen' as a commodity
Reviews & endorsements
"Those looking for an intelligent and very well-informed guide to Austen's contemporary cultural significance will find in Recreating Jane Austen the starting place they seek." Eighteenth-Century Fiction
"John Wiltshire offers a smart critical engagement with Austen adaptation in his Recreating Jane Austen, where he not only analyzes the texts and films but offers a theory of artistic influence and creativity." The Wordsworth Circle
"Although short, the book is remarkably well informed - with extraordinary useful notes and bibliography - and cleverly and wittily argued." CHOICE
Product details
- Published: August 2001
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780521802468
- Length: 192 pages
- Dimensions: 236 × 158 × 17 mm
- Weight: 0.377kg
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- A note on texts
- Introduction: 'Jane Austen' and Jane Austen
- 1. Imagining Jane Austen's life
- 2. Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless
- 3. An Englishwoman's constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare
- 4. From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion
- 5. Pride and Prejudice, love and recognition
- 6. The genius and the facilitating environment
- Notes
- A note on films cited
- Bibliography
- Index.
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