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The reception history of Jane Austen follows a path from modest fame to wild popularity. Jane Austen (1775–1817), the author of such works as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), has become one of the best-known and most widely read novelists in the English language. [1]
- English
- Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
- 18 July 1817 (aged 41), Winchester, Hampshire
Feb 29, 2024 · Researching the reception history of Austen's works. There are many different ways to approach finding both contemporary and newer reviews of Austen's novels along with scholarship on her readers and reception. This section will highlight a few. 1. Books / Ebooks. Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage (2 vols) by B.C. Southam.
The reception history of Jane Austen follows a path from modest fame to wild popularity. Jane Austen (1775–1817), the author of such works as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), has become one of the best-known and most widely read novelists in the English language.
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Jan 1, 2007 · The Reception of Jane Austen in Germany, 1949-2003. January 2007. Authors: A Bautz. Abstract. This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane Austen's...
The reception history of Jane Austen shows how Austen's works, at first having modest fame, became wildly popular. Her books are both the subject of great study and the center of various fan culture. Jane Austen, the writer of such works as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), has become one of the most famous novelists in the English ...
This thesis considers Jane Austen's reception in America from 1800 to 1900 and concludes that her novels were not generally recognized for the first half of the century. In that period, she and her family adversely affected her fame by seeking her obscurity. From mid century to the publication of J.E. Austen-Leigh's Memoir in 1870,
To read her today, over 200 years after her death, is to read her in conjunction with a long, complex reception history. We might read her variously as the domestic, “dear Aunt Jane,” the rebellious proto-feminist, or the subdued intellectual wit, among other renderings.