Format:
1 Online-Ressource (616 p.)
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57 black and white illustrations, 48 colour illustrations, 2 black and white tables, 1 black and white graphic
ISBN:
9781399500425
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Content:
Examines Jane Austen’s engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her workPresents authoritative critical assessments, based on original research, of the representation of a broad range of artistic practice in the work of Jane AustenIncludes insightful and provocative readings of how Austen’s writing has been adapted and transposed across media, including film, television, theatre and online environments Considers Austen’s investigation of the arts in its full historical, philosophical and aesthetic contextComprises thirty-three specially commissioned chapters on Austen and the arts from well-established and emerging scholars from multiple academic disciplinesJane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen’s engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games
Note:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts -- Jane Austen and the Arts Introduction -- Part I The Arts in Context -- 1 Jane Austen, Early Modern Aesthetics and Contemplative Sublimity -- 2 Taste and Passion, Disinterest and the Imagination -- 3 Jane Austen, Moral Philosophy and the Tradition -- 4 ‘Possessing a most exquisite taste in every species of literature’: Reading, Moral Taste and Creative Action in Jane Austen’s Novels -- 5 Reforming the Artist Heroine: Reading Sense and Sensibility (1811) as a Response to Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story (1796) -- 6 Picturing (In)Sensibility in Austen’s Novels and Print Culture -- 7 The Flemish Jane Austen -- Part II The Arts in Austen -- 8 ‘The Creative Eye of Fancy’: Women, Visual Culture and the Female Gaze in Austen’s Novels -- 9 Shadow Portraits: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Silhouettes -- 10 Jane Austen and Crafts -- 11 Jane Austen’s Conversation Pieces -- 12 Jane Austen, Caricature and the Fat Self -- 13 Jane Austen and the Figure of the Body -- 14 ‘He has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people’: Austen’s Men and the Arts -- 15 Music in Jane Austen’s Novels -- 16 Jane Austen’s Dance Dialogues: Representing Dance in the Novels -- 17 The Paper Age: Jane Austen, Fashion and Finance -- 18 Jane Austen and the Theatre of Her Time -- 19 Jane Austen, Architecture and the Decorative Arts -- 20 Creators of Spaces: The Art of Owning, Inhabiting and Imagining Property in Jane Austen -- 21 ‘Nothing but pleasure from beginning to end’: Austen’s Gardens -- Part III Afterlives -- 22 Jane Austen and the Letter -- 23 Austen in a Competitive Literary Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Editions -- 24 Jane Austen and the Imperfect Art of Translation -- 25 Dealing with Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novels: Completions of The Watsons and Sanditon -- 26 The Perils of Novelistic Adaptation: Death Comes to Pemberley, Longbourn and Pamela -- 27 When the Pen is in Fans’ Hands – The Jane Austen Fan Fiction Phenomenon -- 28 Locating Austen in Contemporary Theatre -- 29 ‘I am having a bit of a strange postmodern moment here’: Adapting Austen for Television -- 30 Theme Parks and Seaside Resorts: Rethinking Material and Visual Culture in Sanditon (2019) and Austenland (2013) -- 31 ‘Three or four families in a RPG’: Gaming and Jane Austen -- 32 Austen Reloaded: Digital Approaches to Jane Austen and the Arts -- 33 The Jane Austen Heritage Industry and Literary Tourism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Plate
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781399500425
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