New PDF release: Jane Austen and Performance

By Marina Cano

this can be the 1st exploration of the performative and theatrical strength of Austen’s paintings and its afterlife, from the 19th century to the current. It finds new and little-known Austen fabrics: from suffragette novels and pageants to college and beginner theatricals, passing via mid-twentieth-century representations in Scotland and the USA. The publication concludes with an exam of Austen fandom in keeping with an internet survey carried out through the writer, which elicited over three hundred responses from fanatics around the globe. during the lens of performative idea, this quantity explores how Austen, her paintings and its afterlives, have aided the formation of collective and private identification; how they've got helped convey humans jointly around the generations; and the way they've got had key mental, pedagogical and healing capabilities for an ever starting to be viewers. finally, this e-book explains why Austen continues to be the main loved writer in English Literature.

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