A New Jane Austen
How Americans Brought US the World's Greatest Novelist
Bloomsbury Academic · Print & ebook · October 5, 2023
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Juliette Wells traces how American writers and collectors helped establish Austen’s global literary reputation.
- Genres
- Books & Reading, Women Authors Criticism, American Lit Crit
- Published
- Bloomsbury Academic, October 5, 2023
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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.
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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 NewJane Austenwill inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.
Austen’s American Advocates
Juliette Wells traces how American writers and collectors helped establish Austen’s global literary reputation.
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- American writers and collectors who shaped Austen’s global reputation
- Case studies spanning the 1880s to the 1980s
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- Advocacy for Austen’s place in the literary canon
- Stories of people who preserved artifacts tied to Austen’s legacy
Where it sits
| Women Authors Criticism | 51% |
|---|---|
| Books & Reading | 30% |
| American Lit Crit | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Authors
- Juliette Wells
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- October 5, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing