Nachumi / Oppenheim Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance

Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-675-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nachumi, Nora

Oppenheim, Stephanie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brownstein, Rachel M.

Dunlap, Margaret

McGirr, Elaine

Wells, Juliette

Klenck, Deborah J. Knuth

O'Farrell, Mary Ann

Nachumi, Nora

Francus, Marilyn

Engel, Laura

Higa, Jade

Garcia, Christien

Biajoli, Maria Clara Pivato

Tyrer, Judy

Scheinman, Edward

Oppenheim, Stephanie

Looser, Devoney

Birchall, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction - Nora Nachumi and Stephanie Oppenheim
Part I: The Novels
1. Austen's Teasing, or What the Wit Wants - Mary Ann O'Farrell
2. Performing (Dis)comfort: Queer Possibilities in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park - Jade Higa
3. Taking Hands: The Fisting Phantasmic in Sense and Sensibility - Christien Garcia
Part II: Austen Fan Culture and Austenesque Fiction
4. Always Wanting More: Desire and Austen Fan Fiction - Marilyn Francus
5. Unconquerable Attraction: Darcy and Elizabeth's Falling in Love in Austenesque Novels - Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli
6. What's Hidden in Highbury? - Stephanie Oppenheim
7. Passion and Pastiche - Diana Birchall
Part III: Austen on Stage, on Screen, and Online
8. In Search of Colin Firth's Bum - Nora Nachumi
9. Jane Again - Rachel Brownstein
10. Touching Scenes: Austen, Intimacy and Staging Lovers' Vows - Elaine McGirr
11. Jane's Player's: Sex and Romance in the Virtual World of Jane Austen - Judy Tyrer
12. To YouTube from Gretna Green: Updating Lydia Bennet for the Digital Age - Margaret Dunlap
Part IV: Austen in Conversations and Contexts
13. Erotic Austen - Devoney Looser
14. The Shadow Jane - Laura Engel
15. In Bed with Mr. Knightly: How Austen and Her Readers Understand Sexual Compatibility - Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman
Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at Last - Juliette Wells
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nachumi Nora:
NORA NACHUMI is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the minor in Women's Studies at Stern College for Women/Yeshiva University.Oppenheim Stephanie:
STEPHANIE M. OPPENHEIM is Associate Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.Nachumi Nora:
NORA NACHUMI is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the minor in Women's Studies at Stern College for Women/Yeshiva University.Oppenheim Stephanie:
STEPHANIE M. OPPENHEIM is Associate Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.