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An innovative look at the reading of Jane Austen and the responses of ordinary readers to her works.

‘Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945’ is a study of readers’ interactions with the works of one of England’s most enduringly popular novelists. Employing an innovative approach made possible by new research in the field of the history of reading, the volume discusses Austen’s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and the relationship of her style to her readers’ responses. It considers the role of editions and criticism in directing readers’ responses, and presents and analyses a variety of source material related to readers who read Austen’s works between 1786 and 1945.

Previous studies of Austen’s influence on her readers and literary successors have either presupposed a hypothetical reader, or focused on the texts of the critical tradition, ignoring the views, reactions and thoughts of the common reader. This volume discusses the responses of ordinary readers to Austen’s novels, responses that offer insights into both Jane Austen’s particular appeal, and the nature of the act of reading itself.

Acknowledgements; PART ONE; Introduction; 1. Jane Austen’s Reading in Context; 2. Jane Austen’s Negotiations with Reading; 3. Jane Austen’s Games of Ingenuity; PART TWO; Introduction; 4. Austen’s Readers: Contexts I; 5. Austen’s Readers: Contexts II; 6. Austen’s Readers I: Affection and Appropriation; 7. Austen’s Readers II: Opposition and Resistance; 8. Austen’s Readers III: Friendship and Criticism; 9. Austen’s Readers IV: Sociability and Devotion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Publié par	Anthem Press
Date de parution	15 octobre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783080816
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945

Katie Halsey

Anthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company www.anthempress.com

This edition first published in UK and USA 2013 by ANTHEM PRESS 75–76 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK and 244 Madison Ave. #116, New York, NY 10016, USA

First published in hardback by Anthem Press in 2012

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Halsey, Katie. Jane Austen and her readers, 1786–1945 / Katie Halsey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780857283528 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817–Criticism and interpretation–History. 2. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817–Appreciation. 3. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817–Influence. 4. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817–Knowledge–Literature. 5. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817–Books and reading. 6. Books and reading–Great Britain–History. 7. Readerresponse criticism–Great Britain. 8. Authors and readers–Great Britain– History. I. Title. PR4038.B6H35 2012 823’.7–dc23 2012000479

ISBN13: 978 1 78308 050 2 (Pbk) ISBN10: 1 78308 050 7 (Pbk)

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Acknowledgements

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Part One Introduction 1. Jane Austen’s Reading in Context 2. Jane Austen’s Negotiations with Reading 3. Jane Austen’s Games of Ingenuity

Part Two Introduction 4. Austen’s Readers: Contexts I 5. Austen’s Readers: Contexts II 6. Austen’s Readers I: Affection and Appropriation 7. Austen’s Readers II: Opposition and Resistance 8. Austen’s Readers III: Friendship and Criticism 9. Austen’s Readers IV: Sociability and Devotion Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

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3 17 37 57

89 101 117 135 153 171 189 209

215 257 279

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In a work dedicated to exploring questions of reading and readers, my first debts of thanks must go to those who have been my own readers at various stages of the production of this book. I am grateful to Caroline Gonda, Anne Henry, Alison Hennegan, Cora Kaplan, Bharat Tandon, Daniel Neill, Robert DouglasFairhurst, Mary Jacobus, Michèle Cohen, Larry Klein, Corinna Russell, Kate Griffiths, Louise Joy, Luke Houghton, Daisy Hay, Simon Eliot, Mark Towsey, Dale Townshend, and Anthem’s anonymous readers, all of whom have shaped this work in different ways. I have benefitted in more ways than I can hope to mention from conversations about Jane Austen with friends and colleagues over many years. I cannot name them all here, but I hope they know who they are. I am indebted to many people who gave me access to the documentary and manuscript material I used in this book, including the wonderful staff of the Chawton House Library, Senate House Library, the National Art Library, the National Library of Scotland, the London Women’s Library, Cambridge University Library, the Bodleian Library, Glasgow University Library, the British Library, Innerpeffray Library and the Houghton Library, Harvard. I am particularly grateful to William St Clair, John Spiers and Petronella Haldane for generously allowing me to use their private collections. For their help in tracking down or pointing me towards sometimes obscure material, I must thank Jenny McAuley, Sarah Johnson, Sandra Cummings, Jennie Batchelor, Gillian Dow, Wim van Mierlo, Karen Attar, Rosalind Crone, Bob Owens, Shafquat Towheed, Kate Macdonald, Hilary Adams and Tom and Elizabeth Heydeman. Thanks, too, to Janka Romero and Tej Sood for their patience. An earlier version of Chapter 3 section ii first appeared as ‘The Blush of Modesty or the Blush of Shame’,Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42.3 (July 2006). Part of Chapter 3 section iii appeared as ‘Spectral Texts inMansfield Park’, in Cora Kaplan and Jennie Batchelor (eds),British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics and History(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and a small part of the section on Margaret Oliphant in Chapter 8 first appeared in ‘“Critics as a Race are Donkeys”: Margaret Oliphant, Critic

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or Common Reader?’,the Edinburgh Bibliographical SocietyJournal of , 2 (2007). I offer my thanks to the publishers for permission to reuse this material. I would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Stirling, the University of London, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the Charles Oldham Fund, the Jane Austen Society, the late Dr Herchel Smith and the trustees of the Chawton House Library.

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