The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

Cheryl A. Wilson is Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Stevenson University. In 2012, she participated in the NEH Summer Seminar “Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries” with Devoney Looser and several other Routledge Companion contributors. She is the author of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2009), Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel (2012), and Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine (2017). Maria H. Frawley is a Professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England; Anne Bronte; an edition of Harriet Martineau’s Life in the Sick-Room, and Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, in addition to essays on nineteenth-century women writers, including Jane Austen. She is at work on a book titled Keywords of Jane Austen’s Fiction.

Introduction

Part I

Jane Austen’s Works






Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction
Jodi L. Wyett




Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon
Peter Graham




Pride and Prejudice: Not altogether ‘light & bright & sparkling’
Susan J. Wolfson




The Novelty of Mansfield Park
Emily Rohrbach




Emma, a Heroine
George Justice




The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion
Michael D. Lewis




The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen’s Letters
Jodi A. Devine




‘Setting at naught all rules of probable or possible’: Jane Austen’s ‘Juvenilia’
John C. Leffel



Part II

Historicizing Austen: A Sampling




Touching upon Jane Austen’s Politics
Devoney Looser




‘A Picture of Real Life and Manners’? Austen, Burney, and Edgeworth
Linda Bree




Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel
Elaine Bander




From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen’s Reading
Katie Halsey




Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian
Tara Goshal Wallace




From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist Culture, and Narrative
Laura M. White




‘Bringing her Business Forward’: Jane Austen and Political Economy
Sarah Comyn




Material Goods in Austen’s Novels
Sandie Byrne




Jane Austen and Music
Laura Voracheck




‘All the Egotism of an Invalid’: Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austen’s Sanditon
Sarah Marsh




Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past
Olivia Murphy




They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Austen
Lyndon J. Dominique



Part III

Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling




Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the Novels
Adela Pinch




Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen’s Catch and Release
William Galperin




Austen’s Literary Time
Amit Yahav




Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism
Sarah Ailwood




Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-Sacrifice
Kathleen Anderson




‘Queer Austen’ and Northanger Abbey
Susan Celia Greenfield




‘A Perfectly Swell Romance’: Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in Analogy Criticism
Paula Marantz Cohen




Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu’s La Famille Elliot (1821)
Rachel Canter




Jane Austen and the Social Sciences
Wendy Jones



Part IV

Austen’s Communities: A Sampling




Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line: 'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'
Susan Allen Ford




‘It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together’: JAS and JASNA
Alice Marie Villaseñor




Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia Reproduction
Christopher C. Nagle




‘You do not know her or her heart’: Minor Character Elaboration in Contemporary Austen Spin-off Fiction
Kylie Mirmohamadi




Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand
Marina Cano




Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis
Laaleen Sukhera




Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities of Colour
Sigrid Michelle Anderson




Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen Fanfiction
Melanie Borrego



Part V

Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling




Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Gamer and Katrina O’Loughlin




Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and Films
Martha Stoddard Holmes




Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen Online
Gillian Dow and Kim Simpson




Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White Privilege
Tim Black and Danielle Spratt




Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and Secondary Instructors
Juliette Wells




Austen’s Belief in Education: Sōseki, Nogami, and Sensibility
Kimiyo Ogawa




Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program

Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton