"The amount of fan-generated content about Jane Austen and her novels has long surpassed the author's original canon. Adaptations like Clueless, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen's Fight Club, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries have given Austen fans priceless opportunitie…
"First published anonymously, as 'a lady,' Jane Austen is now the 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 …
'Women and independence in the nineteenth century novel : a study of Austen, Trollope and James', begins with the concept of independence and works through the three most common usages of the word. The first, financial independence (not needing to earn one's livelihood) appears …
The reality of Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice is socially constructed; their goals and actions become a typification of society's institutions and conventions. Examining Austen's pivotal characters, with a particular focus on Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals that each…
'Though writing a century apart and enjoining readers to think in such different ways about human experience, Austen and Woolf are like no other novelists so much as they are like each other. Or so Morris shows. Her concept of "worldly realism" not only distinguishes the signatu…
"Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote. In this exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th- and early 19th-century Brita…
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most widely studied authors in the history of English literature, but her language has received little scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her personal letters. Jane Austen's letters, many of which are addressed …
