A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist

Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen’s global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.

Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen’s novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy.

Engagingly written and extensively illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

Author: Juliette Wells
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 10/05/2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.29w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781350365506
Language: English