Recreating Jane Austen [Paperback]

John Wiltshire examines how Jane Austen's work has been 'recreated' in other mediums.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 her work has been 'recreated' in another age and medium. He engages with new versions of Austen's work and argues that they can be used as aids to enhance readings of the texts. Chapters examine issues such as the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, and 'Jane Austen' as a commodity.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 her work has been 'recreated' in another age and medium. He engages with new versions of Austen's work and argues that they can be used as aids to enhance readings of the texts. Chapters examine issues such as the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, and 'Jane Austen' as a commodity.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 her work has been recreated in another age and medium. Written in an engaging and readable style, this accessible study approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination.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. Those looking for an intelligent and very well-informed guil*