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A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist by Dr Juliette Wells (Elizabeth Connolly Todd Distinguished Associate Professor, Goucher College, Goucher College, USA)

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. 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 New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

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If you thought you knew how Jane Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist, think again. Wells's meticulously researched and beautifully written book introduces a fascinating group of individuals whose contributions to Austen studies have long been obscure. After reading this book, I came to care as much about Alberta Burke and Oscar Fay Adams as I do about many of Austen's characters. -- Professor Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent, UK
An insightful, illuminating and meticulously researched book. Wells animates her subjects with skill, energy and affection in a study that significantly deepens our understanding of early Austen experts and enthusiasts and their contribution to the field. * Lizzie Dunford, Director, Jane Austen's House, UK *

About Dr Juliette Wells (Elizabeth Connolly Todd Distinguished Associate Professor, Goucher College, Goucher College, USA)

Juliette Wells, Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College (USA), is the author of two acclaimed books about Jane Austen's historic readers and fans: Reading Austen in America (2017) and Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011). For Penguin Classics, she edited Austen's Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Austen for Americans, and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams, critical editor and biographer Chapter 2: Canonizing the giant Jane: William Dean Howells, interpreter and advocate Chapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher Hogan, collector and keeper of reading journals Chapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil G. Hassall, and the building of a transatlantic Austen archive Afterword: Jane Austen Anew Bibliography

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NGR9781350365506
9781350365506
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A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist by Dr Juliette Wells (Elizabeth Connolly Todd Distinguished Associate Professor, Goucher College, Goucher College, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-10-05
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