Wild for Austen
A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
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Devoney Looser
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Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in Wild for Austen. These, and many other events and characters, come to life throughout this rollicking book. Austen, we learn, was far wilder in her time than we’ve given her credit for, and Looser traces the fascinating and fantastical journey her legacy has taken over the past 250 years.
All six of Austen’s completed novels are examined here, and Looser uncovers striking new gems therein, as well as in Austen’s juvenilia, unfinished fiction, and even essays and poetry. Looser also takes on entirely new scholarship, writing about Austen’s relationship to the abolitionist movement and women’s suffrage. In examining the legacy of Austen’s works, Looser reveals the film adaptations that might have changed Hollywood history had they come to fruition, and tells extraordinary stories of ghost-sightings, Austen novels cited in courts of law, and the eclectic members of the Austen extended family whose own outrageous lives seem wilder than fiction.
Written with warmth, humor, and remarkable details never before published, Wild for Austen is the ultimate tribute to Jane Austen.
This program is read by Marisa Calin, an Audie, Odyssey, and AudioFile Earphones Award winner.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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Commentaires
"Jane the prim and proper is laid to rest here, so that Jane the satirist, Jane the subversive, Jane the wild can rise and make her trouble. This reading of all her work, some of her biography and family history, and many of the reactions—as criticism, as movies, as fandom—gallops along, as exhilarating as it is illuminating. Devoney Looser is a superb interpreter and astonishingly erudite scholar of all things Austen, and she brings her expertise to bear deftly, amusingly, informatively, leaving us with an Austen who’s ready to roll." (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me)
"Wild for Austen is the ultimate collection of essays about the beloved Jane and her place in history, literature, and even Hollywood. Devoney Looser places Jane in the pantheon, with her canon of novels, poems, stories, and unfinished works. Looser expertly chronicles how Jane Austen influences the adaptations of her own work after her death and inspires new storytelling through her characters, settings and style. Surprising and new facts unveiled and secrets revealed. I couldn't put it down!" (Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife and The View From Lake Como)
"A mesmerizing must-read . . . bursting with fresh and informative takes. . .Give yourself the gift and pleasure of Wild for Austen: it’s a seriously fun and wonderfully intelligent wild ride of a read." (Soniah Kamal, author of Unmarriagable)