The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen

by Adams, Carol J.; Buchanan, Douglas; Gesch, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780826429339
• ISBN10: 0826429335
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Janeite and newcomer alike will revel in the entertaining capsules of each of Austen's beloved novels, along with information on such important subjects as white soup, carriages, what happened at the ha-ha, and, of course, all those characters we love to

Author Biography

Carol Adams is the author of the groundbreaking Sexual Politics of Meat, and with her co-authors, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein. She has toured as a speaker throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is completing a book on Jane Austen and relationships Douglas Buchanan is interested in artistic boundary-crossing and studies composition at the Peabody Conservatory with renowned American composer Michael Hersch; he is a recent honors graduate of the College of Wooster

Table of Contents

First Impressions: Letting Jane Austen into Your Life	p. 1
Pride and Prejudice	p. 3
The Sentence	p. 11
The Importance of a Good Carriage	p. 13
Why I Married Her. By Mr. Bennet	p. 18
An Interview with Joan Klingel Ray, author of Jane Austen for Dummies	p. 20
Sense and Sensibility	p. 25
Willoughby v. Brandon	p. 29
The Clergy in Austen's Fiction	p. 34
The Lives of Jane Austen	p. 36
Mansfield Park	p. 48
What Does Lady Bertram Do?	p. 53
What Happened at the Ha-ha?	p. 55
Raiders of the Early Works: The Juvenilia	p. 57
Love and Freindship: "Beware My Laura"	p. 60
Excerpt from the Juvenilia: "The Adventures of Mr. Harley"	p. 63
If She Could See Them Now: Austen's Relationship with Her Publishers	p. 64
Emma	p. 69
Mr. Knightley, Detective	p. 73
Emma's Dream: Austen and Shakespeare Meet on a Midsummer Night	p. 75
Initial Impressions or, "I'm Missing Your Letters": An Austen Crossword Puzzle	p. 79
Northanger Abbey	p. 82
Say Cheese!: Picturesque Beauty and Jane Austen	p. 89
Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel. A discussion with Anne Timmons, graphic artist	p. 92
The Ideal Jane Austen Tour	p. 97
More than a Constitutional: Heroines Who Favor Walking	p. 105
The Watsons and Lady Susan	p. 107
Cinderella and Evil Witches: Myth-Placed Affections	p. 112
On Reading Jane Austen	p. 115
What's Up with White Soup? Understanding Food in Jane Austen	p. 118
Jane Austen Film Chronology	p. 125
Jane Austen at the Movies	p. 128
An Interview with Karen Joy Fowler, the author of The Jane Austen Book Club	p. 141
LARPing and JARPing	p. 148
Homage to Jane: Movies that Echo Austen	p. 154
Music in 1995 BBC/A&E Pride and Prejudice	p. 158
Pride and Prejudice II, by Kentuck	p. 161
Pride and Prejudice: The Rejected Screenplays	p. 162
Persuasion	p. 164
Mrs. Bennet was Right: The Marriage Plot in Austen Novels	p. 170
Was Lady Russell Wrong?	p. 175
"You Should Be in Pictures": Jane Austen's Portrait	p. 177
The Best Gifts for a Janeite	p. 181
Sanditon	p. 183
Winchester Cathedral	p. 186
Sleuthing Regency Dresses	p. 188
The Jane Austen Aptitude Test	p. 193
What Makes a Janeite?	p. 197
Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century	p. 199
If Jane Austen Had Been a Man	p. 202
Austen the Novelist	p. 204
Last Words: Acknowledgments	p. 208
Answers to the Crossword Puzzle	p. 211
Answers to The Jane Austen Aptitude Test	p. 213
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