Searching for Jane Austen
"In this illustrated and lively work, Auerbach surveys two centuries of editing, censoring, and distorting Jane Austen's life and writings. Auerbach samples Austen's flamboyant, risque adolescent works featuring heroines who get drunk, lie, steal, raise armies, and throw rivals out of windows. She demonstrates that Austen constantly tested and improved her skills by setting herself a new challenge in each of her six novels." "In addition, Auerbach considers Austen's final irreverent writings, discusses her tragic death at the age of forty-one, and ferrets out ridiculous modern adaptations and illustrations, including ads, cartoons, book jackets, newspaper articles, plays, and films from our own time. An appendix reprints a ground-breaking article that introduced Mark Twain's "Jane Austen," an unfinished and unforgettable essay in which Twain and Austen enter into mortal combat."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., 2004
Nonfiction
xiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780299201807, 9780299201845, 0299201805, 0299201848
54768152
Dear Aunt Jane: Putting Her Down and Touching Her Up
Beware of Swoons:Jane Austen's Early Writings
Only Genius, Wit, and Taste: Northanger Abbey
An Excellent Heart: Sense and Sensibility
The Liveliness of Your Mind: Pride and Prejudice
All the Heroism of Principle: Mansfield Park
An Imaginist Like Herself: Emma
The Advantage of Maturity of Mind: Persuasion
Behold Me Immortal: Finding Jane Austen Today
Appendix A.A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen?
Appendix B. Full Text of Mark Twain's 'Jane Austen.'