{"product_id":"9781405149099","title":"A Companion to Jane Austen","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell Companions to Literature and Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA Companion to Jane Austen\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClaudia L. Johnson | Clara Tuite\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ European \/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFunctions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cb\u003eClaudia L. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e joined the faculty at Princeton in 1994 and now serves as Department Chair. She specializes in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, with a particular emphasis on the novel. Her books include \u003ci\u003eJane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 1988), \u003ci\u003eEquivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 1995), and \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2002), along with editions of Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton, 1998), \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton, 2002), and \u003ci\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2003). Her research has been supported by major fellowships such as the NEH and the Guggenheim. She is now finishing a book about author-love called \u003ci\u003eJane Austen’s Cults and Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e, which traces permutations of \"Jane mania\" from 1817 to the present, and also working on another called \u003ci\u003eRaising the Novel,\u003c\/i\u003e which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClara Tuite\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Melbourne. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2002, 2008), as well as several essays on Austen, and the co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2002, 2006).\u003cbr\u003e Cover image: The Modern Living Room, from Humphry Repton's 'Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', 1816, colour lithograph. Private Collection, The Stapleton Collection \/ The Bridgeman Art Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 January 2009\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781405149099\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e560\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40.48\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315622801548,"sku":"9781405149099","price":244.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781405149099_8c0578e2-e8ff-4075-8a76-e3ee5159251a.jpg?v=1780159551","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781405149099","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}