Reading Jane Austen
An Introduction
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 24. August 2026
Book
Hardback
166 pages
978-1-032-62980-3 (ISBN)
Description
Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction captures the dynamic range of scholarly, popular, and pedagogical conversations that characterize contemporary Austen studies as a vibrant part of the broader Austen universe. Organized around historically oriented models of reading Austen's works-re-evaluating the past, considering the present, and imagining the future-the volume includes eight new interdisciplinary essays that show us why we continue to find Austen's relevance in our contemporary moment, along with a collaborative, conversational conclusion. The goal of the volume is to provide an accessible, concise, and comprehensive set of tools, resources, and models that empower readers to accept the invitation to join in the ongoing critical conversation about Austen. The volume will appeal to teachers of Austen in the high school and university classroom, to leaders of book clubs and reading groups, and to online, fan, and creative communities centering on Austen.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
10 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 10 s/w Abbildungen
10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-62980-3 (9781032629803)
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Person
Danielle Spratt (she/her) is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where she is Director of Community Engagement. Her areas of interest include eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, public and digital humanities, and critical community engaged research and teaching. She is co-author of Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice and co-editor of Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. She is currently finishing a monograph on the history of medicine and reproduction.
Content
Introduction
Part I: Reading Histories
1. "What Have You Been Judging From?" Misdirected Sympathy, Shame, and Nation-Building in The Female Quixote and Northanger Abbey
Kathleen Tamayo Alves
2. Reading for Contrary Purposes: Unsettling Domestic Intimacies in Mansfield Park and Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality
Nina Moon
3. Virtue and Duty in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Tim Black
Part II: Reading Presentisms
4. Bad Marriages and Queer Desires: Adultery, Sodomy and Incest in Mansfield Park
Susan Celia Greenfield
5. Anne Elliot's Rabbit: The Intertextualities of Austen Adaptations
Adela Ramos
6. Austen and the Fantasies and Failures of Reproductive Justice
Danielle Spratt
Part III: Reading Futures
7. The Politics of Play in Jane Austen and Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Colleen Marie Tripp
8. Pro-Choice Austen: Persuasion and the Power of Writing the Self
Jodi L. Wyett
Conclusion: Call to Action
Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Tim Black, Susan Celia Greenfield, Nina Moon, Adela Ramos, Danielle Spratt, Colleen Marie Tripp, and Jodi L. Wyett
Part I: Reading Histories
1. "What Have You Been Judging From?" Misdirected Sympathy, Shame, and Nation-Building in The Female Quixote and Northanger Abbey
Kathleen Tamayo Alves
2. Reading for Contrary Purposes: Unsettling Domestic Intimacies in Mansfield Park and Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality
Nina Moon
3. Virtue and Duty in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Tim Black
Part II: Reading Presentisms
4. Bad Marriages and Queer Desires: Adultery, Sodomy and Incest in Mansfield Park
Susan Celia Greenfield
5. Anne Elliot's Rabbit: The Intertextualities of Austen Adaptations
Adela Ramos
6. Austen and the Fantasies and Failures of Reproductive Justice
Danielle Spratt
Part III: Reading Futures
7. The Politics of Play in Jane Austen and Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Colleen Marie Tripp
8. Pro-Choice Austen: Persuasion and the Power of Writing the Self
Jodi L. Wyett
Conclusion: Call to Action
Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Tim Black, Susan Celia Greenfield, Nina Moon, Adela Ramos, Danielle Spratt, Colleen Marie Tripp, and Jodi L. Wyett