Recreating Jane Austen

by John Wiltshire

• ISBN13: 9780521802468
• ISBN10: 0521802466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen's work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen's novels, John Wiltshire examines how they have been transposed and 'recreated' in another age and medium. Wiltshire illuminates the process of 'recreation' through the work of the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, and offers Jane Austen's own relation to Shakespeare as a suggestive parallel. Exploring the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, 'Jane Austen' as a commodity, and offering a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice, this book approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination.

Author Biography

John Wiltshire is a Reader in English at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments	ix
A note on texts	xi
Introduction: `Jane Austen' and Jane Austen	1	(12)
Imagining Jane Austen's life	13	(25)
Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless	38	(20)
An Englishwoman's constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare	58	(19)
From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion	77	(22)
Pride and Prejudice, love and recognition	99	(26)
The genius and the facilitating environment	125	(15)
Notes	140	(23)
A note on films cited	163	(2)
Bibliography	165	(11)
Index	176