Recreating 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.
| ISBN: | 9780521802468 |
| Publication date: | 2nd August 2001 |
| Author: | John (La Trobe University, Victoria) Wiltshire |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies |