An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name.
Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the
inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney
Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people,
performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early
fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we
know. Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English
illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational
gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with
bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring
director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her
pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to
ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing
room audiences. Even the supposedly staid history of Austen
scholarship has its bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane
Austen dissertation, student George Pellew, tragically died young,
but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, to
have come back from the dead. Looser shows how these figures and
their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen's reputation, just as
she profoundly shaped theirs. Through them, Looser describes the
factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving
image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes
of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary
and cultural power. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply
Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking
about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down
from generation to generation.
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