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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... adaptation . Films directly based on the novels are not the only ones discussed , for perhaps even more interesting are others which , besides imitating her work , raise in the course of their action and dialogue the nature and status ...
... adaptation . Films directly based on the novels are not the only ones discussed , for perhaps even more interesting are others which , besides imitating her work , raise in the course of their action and dialogue the nature and status ...
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... adaptations of classics . Bridget works for a publisher , and at a book launch Mark's stuck - up fiancée ( as inclined to sneer at Bridget's enthusiasm for the TV show Blind Date as Miss Bingley was at Elizabeth's traipsing across the ...
... adaptations of classics . Bridget works for a publisher , and at a book launch Mark's stuck - up fiancée ( as inclined to sneer at Bridget's enthusiasm for the TV show Blind Date as Miss Bingley was at Elizabeth's traipsing across the ...
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... adaptation ' , rework- ing , ' appropriation ' , conversion , mimicking ( the proliferation of terms suggests how nebulous and ill - defined is the arena ) of earlier works into other media is an important feature of the current ...
... adaptation ' , rework- ing , ' appropriation ' , conversion , mimicking ( the proliferation of terms suggests how nebulous and ill - defined is the arena ) of earlier works into other media is an important feature of the current ...
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... adaptations , transcodings and appropriations of Jane Austen's original novels form one subject of this book , for ... adaptation for profit of Austen's courtship novel - is for Thompson a way of deflecting what is unanswerable in the ...
... adaptations , transcodings and appropriations of Jane Austen's original novels form one subject of this book , for ... adaptation for profit of Austen's courtship novel - is for Thompson a way of deflecting what is unanswerable in the ...
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... adapting Jane Austen to the needs of a modern audience , in seeking to please that audience , not only has the difficult balance of Austen's irony been lost , but history has been traduced , and the ethical emphases of her work have ...
... adapting Jane Austen to the needs of a modern audience , in seeking to please that audience , not only has the difficult balance of Austen's irony been lost , but history has been traduced , and the ethical emphases of her work have ...
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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