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Author : Deborah Yaffe
Release : 2013
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 735/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Among the Janeites by : Deborah Yaffe
Download or read book Among the Janeites written by Deborah Yaffe. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warmth and humor, lifelong Janeite Deborah Yaffe opens the door on the quirky, thriving subculture of Jane Austen fandom.
Author : Deborah Yaffe
Release : 2013-08-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 794/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Among The Janeites by : Deborah Yaffe
Download or read book Among The Janeites written by Deborah Yaffe. This book was released on 2013-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “witty, irresistible” account of Jane Austen’s most zealously devoted fans and their lively literary community (Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao). They walk among us in their bonnets and Empire-waist gowns, clutching their souvenir tote bags and battered paperbacks: the Janeites, Jane Austen’s legion of devoted fans. Who are these obsessed admirers, whose passion has transformed Austen from classic novelist to pop-culture phenomenon? Deborah Yaffe, journalist and Janeite, sets out to answer this question, exploring the remarkable endurance of Austen’s stories, the unusual zeal that their author inspires, and the striking cross-section of lives she has touched. Along the way, Yaffe meets a Florida lawyer with a byzantine theory about hidden subtexts in the novels, a writer of Austen fan fiction who found her own Mr. Darcy while reimagining Pride and Prejudice, and a lit professor whose roller-derby nom de skate is Stone Cold Jane Austen. Yaffe goes where Janeites gather, joining a pilgrimage to historic sites in Britain, chatting online with fellow fans, and attending the annual ball of the Jane Austen Society of North America—in period costume. Part chronicle of a vibrant literary community, part memoir of a lifelong love, Among the Janeites is a funny, touching meditation on the nature of fandom. “[A] playful exploration of Austen obsession. . . . amusing and sometimes mind-boggling.” —Jane Smiley, The New York Times “Explores the dimensions of modern Jane-o-mania . . . Yaffe honors her hero throughout.” —Kirkus Reviews “Lively and insightful . . . Yaffe, who is ‘happiest when curled up alone with Persuasion,’ gamely dons period costume, studies country dancing, and dives into Austen fan fiction to research this subculture.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Jane Austen
Release : 2020-04-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 504/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Watsons by : Jane Austen
Download or read book The Watsons written by Jane Austen. This book was released on 2020-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. Living near the Watsons are the Osbornes, a great titled family. Emma attracts some notice from the boorish and awkward young Lord Osborne, while one of her sisters pursues Lord Osborne's arrogant, social-climbing friend, Tom Musgrave. Emma is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her sisters, but gets involved in it whether she likes it or not.
Author : Juliette Wells
Release : 2012-01-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 166/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Everybody's Jane by : Juliette Wells
Download or read book Everybody's Jane written by Juliette Wells. This book was released on 2012-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.
Author : Janine Barchas
Release : 2019-10-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 599/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lost Books of Jane Austen by : Janine Barchas
Download or read book The Lost Books of Jane Austen written by Janine Barchas. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly innovative and occasionally irreverent, this book will appeal in equal measure to book historians, Austen fans, and scholars of literary celebrity.
