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Jane Austen's Textual Lives - From Aeschylus to Bollywood (Paperback)
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Jane Austen's Textual Lives - From Aeschylus to Bollywood (Paperback)
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Through three intertwined histories Jane Austen's Textual Lives
offers a new way of approaching and reading a very familiar author.
One is a history of the transmission and transformation of Jane
Austen through manuscripts, critical editions, biographies, and
adaptations; a second provides a conspectus of the development of
English Studies as a discipline in which the original and primary
place of textual criticism is recovered; and a third reviews the
role of Oxford University Press in shaping a canon of English texts
in the twentieth century. Jane Austen can be discovered in all
three.
Since her rise to celebrity status at the end of the nineteenth
century, Jane Austen has occupied a position within
English-speaking culture that is both popular and canonical,
accessible and complexly inaccessible, fixed and certain yet
wonderfully amenable to shifts of sensibility and cultural
assumptions. The implied contradiction was represented in the early
twentieth century by, on the one hand, the Austen family's
continued management, censorship, and sentimental marketing of the
sweet lady novelist of the Hampshire countryside; and on the other,
by R. W. Chapman's 1923 Clarendon Press edition of the Novels of
Jane Austen, which subjected her texts to the kind of scholarly
probing reserved till then for classical Greek and Roman authors
obscured by centuries of attrition. It was to be almost fifty years
before the Clarendon Press considered it necessary to recalibrate
the reputation of another popular English novelist in this way.
Beginning with specific encounters with three kinds of textual
work and the problems, clues, or challenges to interpretation they
continue to present, KathrynSutherland goes on to consider the
absence of a satisfactory critical theory of biography that can
help us address the partial life, and ends with a discussion of the
screen adaptations through which the texts continue to live on.
Throughout, Jane Austen's textual identities provide a means to
explore the wider issue of what text is and to argue the importance
of understanding textual space as itself a powerful agent
established only by recourse to further interpretations and
fictions.
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