First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.
The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory.
Introduction
Part I
Jane Austens Works
Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction
Jodi L. Wyett
Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon
Peter Graham
Pride and Prejudice: Not altogether light & bright & sparkling
Susan J. Wolfson
The Novelty of Mansfield Park
Emily Rohrbach
Emma, a Heroine
George Justice
The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion
Michael D. Lewis
The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austens Letters
Jodi A. Devine
Setting at naught all rules of probable or possible: Jane Austens
Juvenilia
John C. Leffel
Part II
Historicizing Austen: A Sampling
Touching upon Jane Austens Politics
Devoney Looser
A Picture of Real Life and Manners? Austen, Burney, and Edgeworth
Linda Bree
Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel
Elaine Bander
From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austens Reading
Katie Halsey
Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian
Tara Goshal Wallace
From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist
Culture, and Narrative
Laura M. White
Bringing her Business Forward: Jane Austen and Political Economy
Sarah Comyn
Material Goods in Austens Novels
Sandie Byrne
Jane Austen and Music
Laura Voracheck
All the Egotism of an Invalid: Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austens
Sanditon
Sarah Marsh
Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past
Olivia Murphy
They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness
in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Austen
Lyndon J. Dominique
Part III
Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling
Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the
Novels
Adela Pinch
Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austens Catch and Release
William Galperin
Austens Literary Time
Amit Yahav
Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism
Sarah Ailwood
Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-Sacrifice
Kathleen Anderson
Queer Austen and Northanger Abbey
Susan Celia Greenfield
A Perfectly Swell Romance: Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in
Analogy Criticism
Paula Marantz Cohen
Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieus La
Famille Elliot (1821)
Rachel Canter
Jane Austen and the Social Sciences
Wendy Jones
Part IV
Austens Communities: A Sampling
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line: 'Formed for
[ an] Elegant and Rational Society'
Susan Allen Ford
It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together: JAS and JASNA
Alice Marie Villaseñor
Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia Reproduction
Christopher C. Nagle
You do not know her or her heart: Minor Character Elaboration in
Contemporary Austen Spin-off Fiction
Kylie Mirmohamadi
Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand
Marina Cano
Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis
Laaleen Sukhera
Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities
of Colour
Sigrid Michelle Anderson
Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen Fanfiction
Melanie Borrego
Part V
Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling
Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Gamer and Katrina OLoughlin
Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and Films
Martha Stoddard Holmes
Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen Online
Gillian Dow and Kim Simpson
Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What
Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White Privilege
Tim Black and Danielle Spratt
Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and
Secondary Instructors
Juliette Wells
Austens Belief in Education: Sseki, Nogami, and Sensibility
Kimiyo Ogawa
Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer
Program
Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton
Cheryl A. Wilson is Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Stevenson University. In 2012, she participated in the NEH Summer Seminar Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries with Devoney Looser and several other Routledge Companion contributors. She is the author of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2009), Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel (2012), and Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine (2017).
Maria H. Frawley is a Professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England; Anne Bronte; an edition of Harriet Martineaus Life in the Sick-Room, and Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, in addition to essays on nineteenth-century women writers, including Jane Austen. She is at work on a book titled Keywords of Jane Austens Fiction.
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