Reading Jane Austen

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-62980-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Reading Literature Today

Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction captures the dynamic range of scholarly, popular, and pedagogical conversations that characterize contemporary Austen studies as a vibrant part of the broader Austen universe. Organized around historically oriented models of reading Austen’s works—re-evaluating the past, considering the present, and imagining the future—the volume includes eight new interdisciplinary essays that show us why we continue to find Austen’s relevance in our contemporary moment, along with a collaborative, conversational conclusion. The goal of the volume is to provide an accessible, concise, and comprehensive set of tools, resources, and models that empower readers to accept the invitation to join in the ongoing critical conversation about Austen. The volume will appeal to teachers of Austen in the high school and university classroom, to leaders of book clubs and reading groups, and to online, fan, and creative communities centering on Austen.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spratt, Danielle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Reading Histories

1. “What Have You Been Judging From?” Misdirected Sympathy, Shame, and Nation-Building in The Female Quixote and Northanger Abbey

Kathleen Tamayo Alves

2. Reading for Contrary Purposes: Unsettling Domestic Intimacies in Mansfield Park and Janet Schaw’s Journal of a Lady of Quality

Nina Moon

3. Virtue and Duty in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Tim Black

Part II: Reading Presentisms

4. Bad Marriages and Queer Desires: Adultery, Sodomy and Incest in Mansfield Park

Susan Celia Greenfield

5. Anne Elliot’s Rabbit: The Intertextualities of Austen Adaptations

Adela Ramos

6. Austen and the Fantasies and Failures of Reproductive Justice

Danielle Spratt  Part III: Reading Futures

7. The Politics of Play in Jane Austen and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Colleen Marie Tripp

8. Pro-Choice Austen: Persuasion and the Power of Writing the Self

Jodi L. Wyett

9. Conclusion: Call to Action

Kathleen Tamayo Alves

Tim Black

Susan Celia Greenfield

Nina Moon

Adela Ramos

Danielle Spratt

Colleen Marie Tripp

Jodi L. Wyett

Über Autor(innen)

Danielle Spratt (she/her) is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where she is Director of Community Engagement. Her areas of interest include eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, public and digital humanities, and critical community engaged research and teaching. She is co-author of Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice and co-editor of Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. She is currently finishing a monograph on the history of medicine and reproduction.