Why Jane Austen? and Jane-O-Mania

"A delectable hybrid of biographical and cultural criticism, struck with brilliant splashes of memoir." - Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter   Why Jane Austen?     Rachel Brownstein   Order Your Copy Now and Save 30%!   We'd like to offer you 30% off orders of Why Jane Austen? To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code WHYBR in the "Redeem Coupon" field at check out. Click on the "redeem coupon" button and your savings will be calculated. Read the     Table of Contents | Read reviews       REMINDER: SAVE UP TO 80% ON HUNDREDS OF TITLES DURING OUR SPRING SALE   "Why Jane Austen? is a warmhearted, personal, and humane meditation on Austen and Austenolatry. It is also smart, witty, eloquent, and joyfully wide-ranging, a mixture of anecdote, cultural criticism, biography, literary history, and close reading. By bringing serious literary thought to a wider audience, this book is accessible to anyone acquainted with Austen's novels. It performs one of the most important services of humanistic scholarship." - William Deresiewicz, author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets Rachel M. Brownstein considers constructions of Jane Austen as a heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author and the changing notions of these categories. She finds echoes of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, the commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims paradoxically to preserve and liberate, to correct and collaborate with old Jane. Brownstein's brilliant discussion of the distinctiveness and distinction of Austen's genius clarifies the reasons why we read the novelist-or why we should read her-and reorients the prevailing view of her work. Reclaiming the rich comedy of Austen while constructing a new narrative of authorship, Brownstein unpacks the author's fascinating entanglement with readers and other admirers. ORDER THE BOOK  $29.50 $20.65 (with discount code WHYBR) / £20.50  cloth  320 pages  For more titles in: European and British Literature Literary Criticism and Theory Women's Studies

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