Recreating Jane Austen
Recreating Jane Austen by John Wiltshire, published by Cambridge University Press on August 2, 2001, is a scholarly exploration aimed at readers familiar with Austen’s literary contributions. This edition spans 179 pages and delves into the impact of recent film and television adaptations of Austen’s novels, examining how these interpretations have been transformed across different mediums and eras.
In this book, Wiltshire utilizes the insights of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to illuminate the concept of ‘recreation’ in relation to Austen’s work. He also draws parallels between Austen and Shakespeare, while exploring themes such as the romantic impulse in Austenian biography and the commodification of her identity. The text offers a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice and addresses the significant role Jane Austen occupies in contemporary cultural discussions, making it a thoughtful addition to the fields of literary criticism and cultural studies.
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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.
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