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The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from
diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's
readers experience and process her novels' erotic power. Are Jane
Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a
resounding "Yes!" From the moment Colin Firth stripped down to his
breeches and shirt in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, screen
adaptations inspired by Austen's novels have banked on their
ability to depict sexual tension and romantic desire. Meanwhile,
the success of spin-offs, sequels, and elaborations confirms that
Austen's novels have become a potent aphrodisiac for everyday
readers. Clearly, the fourteen million viewers who watched Firth's
unveiling were onto something: Austen's novels turn people on. Jane
Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and
Beyond brings together a range of voices-from literary scholars to
video game designers-to explore how different types of readers
experience the realm of desire and the erotic in all things Austen.
In this timely collection, writers, critics, journalists, and
authors of internet content weigh in on sex and romance in Austen's
works and in the conversations and creations the novels
inspire-from sequels to critical analyses to online role-playing
games. Contributors examine what is at stake for each set of Austen
enthusiasts when Eros is added to the equation, in so doing
building on the long tradition of Austen criticism and enriching
our appreciation of the novels.
Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and
intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community
and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that
explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main
contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances
Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur
Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and
analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the
pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful
examination of particular works situated within complex social and
personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick”
and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages
with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality,
literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race,
slavery, and sensibility. Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James
Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas
Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John
Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Art and Artifact in Austen (Hardcover)
Anna Battigelli; Contributions by Peter Sabor, Elaine Bander, Nancy E. Johnson, Deborah C. Payne, …
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Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but
she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played
the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores,
attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat
for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in
theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social bond, solidifying
her engagement with community and offering order. And yet
Austen’s hold on readers’ imaginations owes a debt to the
omnipresent threat of disorder that often stems—ironically—from
her characters’ socially disruptive artistic sensibilities and
skill. Drawing from a wealth of recent historicist and materialist
Austen scholarship, this timely work explores Austen’s ironic use
of art and artifact to probe selfhood, alienation, isolation, and
community in ways that defy simple labels and acknowledge the
complexity of Austen’s thought. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press.
Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the
theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth
century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood
and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in
relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the
idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a
professional, material, literary, and cultural site has received
little critical attention. The essays in this volume, spanning the
period from the Restoration to Regency, address these forgotten
maternal narratives, focusing on: the representation of motherhood
as the defining female role; the interplay between an actress's
celebrity persona and her chosen roles; the performative balance
between the cults of maternity and that of the "passionate"
actress; and tensions between sex and maternity and/or maternity
and public authority. In examining the overlaps and disconnections
between representations and realities of maternity in the long
eighteenth century, and by looking at written, received, visual,
and performed records of motherhood, Stage Mothers makes an
important contribution to debates central to eighteenth-century
cultural history.
Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays
on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period
for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female
figures - returning to the Boswell and Burney circle - but present
arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical
modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in
the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the
methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking
material from all sources, experience, report, and the records of
human affairs, each contributor examines within the contexts of
their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives
of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.
New work on Frances Burney D'Arblay's son, Alexander, as revealed
through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi;
and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney's realignment of family
biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century
biography and autobiography.
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