Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures by Claudia Johnson

Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures by Claudia Johnson

Jane Austen's lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. This title begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created.

"Claudia LJohnson does more than trace out Austen's legacy and rethink the way critics and fans alike have tried to hold on to this elusive writer-she displays the wealth of the novels themselves in new, surprising, and always intelligent ways. Packed with the fruits of Johnson's brilliant work in the archive, this book also creates a compelling narrative from the accounts of readers, worshippers, and critics alike, and fashions a very delicate path between the adoring and the critical. A monumental work by perhaps the premier scholar of Austen's work and legacy." -Mary Favret, Indiana University"

Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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ISBN 13	9780226402031
ISBN 10	0226402037
Title	Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures
Author	Claudia L Johnson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2012-05-18
Number of pages	240
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