Recreating Jane AustenRecreating 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. |
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... literary production . Winnicott's theory differs strikingly from Freud's attempt to make sense of the aesthetic . ' Sublimation ' offers to instantiate a realm outside the domain of sexuality and yet always seemingly leads back into ...
... literary production . Winnicott's theory differs strikingly from Freud's attempt to make sense of the aesthetic . ' Sublimation ' offers to instantiate a realm outside the domain of sexuality and yet always seemingly leads back into ...
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... literary or cultural criticism , to trans- form descriptions of human psyches in their interaction into useful ways of thinking about the relationships between texts , even when these texts belong to different genres or media . I ...
... literary or cultural criticism , to trans- form descriptions of human psyches in their interaction into useful ways of thinking about the relationships between texts , even when these texts belong to different genres or media . I ...
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... literary queen ( as Shakespeare is the king ) of a dominant culture , her texts one arm of an oppressive educative project that inculcates the values of the ' mother country ' , her careful investigation of behavioural constraints and ...
... literary queen ( as Shakespeare is the king ) of a dominant culture , her texts one arm of an oppressive educative project that inculcates the values of the ' mother country ' , her careful investigation of behavioural constraints and ...
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... literary biographers . This book is concerned at its heart with what love of Jane Austen's work means , and how we distinguish between varieties and forms of this love . I argue that recreating her work is only possible when the reader ...
... literary biographers . This book is concerned at its heart with what love of Jane Austen's work means , and how we distinguish between varieties and forms of this love . I argue that recreating her work is only possible when the reader ...
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Contents
Imagining Jane Austens life | 13 |
Recreating Jane Austen Jane Austen in Manhattan Metropolitan Clueless | 38 |
An Englishwomans constitution Jane Austen and Shakespeare | 58 |
From drama to novel to film inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion | 77 |
Pride and Prejudice love and recognition | 99 |
The genius and the facilitating environment | 125 |
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