REVIEWS OF BOOKS ON JANE AUSTEN


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Gilroy, Amanda. Reviews of three recent scholarly studies of Jane Austen. Deirdre Lynch, ed., Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000); You-Me Park And Rajewari Sunder Rajan, eds., The Postcolonial Jane Austen (Routledge Press, 2000) and Clara Tuite, Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002). In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2002

Galperin, William H. A review of The Historical Austen (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). Reviewed by Eric C. Walker. In Romanticism on The Net, Issues 32-33 (November 2003-February 2004)

Radical Austen. Article discusses several scholarly books that see Austen as politically conservative, and reviews Peter Knox-Shaw's Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, 2004, which contends that she was not. By Michael Caines, Times Literary Supplement, March 2, 2005

Review of Anne Crippen Ruderman, The Pleasures of Virtue: Political Thought in the Novels of Jane Austen.Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. - book reviews. In Criticism, Spring, 1997 by Patricia L. Skarda

Review of three recent scholarly books on Austen, "Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees/The Postcolonial Jane Austen/Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon," in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2002 by Gilroy, Amanda

A review of Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life, by Helen Pike BauerNew York: Knopf, 1997. In Cross Currents, Fall, 1998

A review of Roger Sale, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, New York: Routledge, 1994. In Criticism, Summer, 1995 by Jill Heydt-Stevensonby

A review of Carol Shields Jane Austen, "Maiden aunt," in New Statesman, Feb 5, 2001 by Lisa Allardice

Another review of Shields Jane Austen "Not so plain Jane," in The Spectator, Mar 3, 2001 by Keates, Jonathan

A review of David Nokes Jane Austen: A Life In Commonweal, Nov 7, 1997 by Suzanne Keen

Book reviews of two new biographies, by Claire Tomalin and David Nokes, in New Statesman, Oct 17, 1997 by Malcolm Bradbury

A review of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism edited by Devoney Looser, in Criticism, Fall, 1996 by Laura Dabundo

Review of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon, by Clara Tuite, Cambridge University Press, 2002. For The Jane Austen Society of Australia, by Yvette Field, 14 February 2004

A review of Selwyn, David, ed. The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family. University of Iowa Press. From the American Society of Jane Austen Scholars, review by Alan Shockley.

A review of Copeland, Edward and Juliet McMaster, eds.The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. From the American Society of Jane Austen Scholars, review by Jean Graham.

A review of Troost, Linda, and Sayre Greenfield, eds., Jane Austen in Hollywood, University Press of Kentucky, 1998. (A collection of essays on adaptations of Austen's novels that appeared in the mid-nineties). Reviewed by Elizabeth Archer, from New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies.

A review of Claire Tomalin Jane Austen: a life. London: Viking, 1997. Review by Jean Brushfield, from the American Society of Jane Austen Scholars.

A review of two biographies: Valerie Grosvenor Myer. Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart. New York: Arcade, 1997; and David Nokes Jane Austen: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Review by Elvira Casal from the American Society of Jane Austen Scholars.

A review of Nokes, David, Jane Austen: A Life University of California Press, 1997. Reviewed by Catherine Judd, from New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies.

A (generally negative) review of a new edition of Northanger Abbey, Ed. Claire Grogan Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996. Reviewed by Julia Paulman Kielstra, from Romanticism on the Net.

Jane Austen: A Family Record, 2nd edition JASNA Newsletter Summer 2005

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma JASNA Newsletter Summer 2005

Jane Austen and Crime JASNA Newsletter Summer 2005

A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2005

Tea with Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2005

Jane Austen on Screen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2005

Annotated Pride and Prejudice JASNA Newsletter Spring 2005

The Complete Poems of James Austen, Jane Austen's Eldest Brother JASNA Newsletter Spring 2005

Emma; or, The Unfortunate Attachment: A Sentimental Novel JASNA Newsletter Spring 2005

Effusions of Fancy JASNA Newsletter Winter 2004

The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature From Austen to Woolf JASNA Newsletter Winter 2004

Gothic Editions, The Monk and Northanger Abbey JASNA Newsletter Winter 2004

In the Steps of Jane Austen: Walking Tours of Austen's England JASNA Newsletter Winter 2004

The Talk in Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2004

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books JASNA Newsletter Winter 2004

Jane Austen, or, The Secret of Style JASNA Newsletter Summer 2004

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels JASNA Newsletter Summer 2004

The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith JASNA Newsletter Summer 2004

Jane Austen and the Theatre JASNA Newsletter Summer 2004

The Jane Austen Book Club JASNA Newsletter Summer 2004

Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture JASNA Newsletter Spring 2004

Jane Austen's Regency World JASNA Newsletter Spring 2004

The Historical Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2004

"All This Reading": The Literary World of Barbara Pym JASNA Newsletter Spring 2004

I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald JASNA Newsletter Spring 2004

Becoming Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2003

The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake JASNA Newsletter Winter 2003

Jane Austen Fashion: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2003

Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2003

Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2003

Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2003

Jane Austen's "Outlandish Cousin": The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide JASNA Newsletter Summer 2003

In A Fast Coach With A Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson JASNA Newsletter Summer 2003

Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England JASNA Newsletter Summer 2003

Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations JASNA Newsletter Summer 2003

Romantic Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Where's Where in Jane Austen...and What Happens There JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Jane Austen and Names JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Jane Austen and the Theatre JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts: A Study of the Novelist's Development through the Surviving Papers JASNA Newsletter Spring 2003

Soldier of the Raj: The Life of Richard Purvis, 1789-1868, Soldier, Sailor, and Parson JASNA Newsletter Winter 2002

A Year with Jane Austen, A Calendar for 2002 JASNA Newsletter Winter 2002

Pride and Prejudice JASNA Newsletter Winter 2002 and The Recess JASNA Newsletter Winter 2002

Jane Austen: Antipodean Views JASNA Newsletter Winter 2002

Sense and Sensibility - two new editions JASNA Newsletter Summer 2002

The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing JASNA Newsletter Summer 2002

The Tailor's Masterpiece and Hints on Etiquette JASNA Newsletter Summer 2002

The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia JASNA Newsletter Summer 2002

I, Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2002

Jane Austen in Hollywood and Recreating Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2002

Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction and A Century of Wills from Jane Austen's Family, 1705 - 1806 JASNA Newsletter Spring 2002

Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Fiction JASNA Newsletter Spring 2002

Student Companion to Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2001

Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement JASNA Newsletter Winter 2001

General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study in Dialogism JASNA Newsletter Winter 2001

Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1839: Stress Points in English Augustan Tradition and The Poetics of Novels: Fiction and its Execution JASNA Newsletter Winter 2001

Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Jane Austen and the Navy JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Jane and Her Gentlemen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Invitation to the Party JASNA Newsletter Summer 2001

Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees JASNA Newsletter Winter 2000

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 2000

The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense & Sensibility JASNA Newsletter Winter 2000

Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities JASNA Newsletter Winter 2000

Jane Austen: A Celebration JASNA Newsletter Winter 2000

Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography JASNA Newsletter Winter 2000

Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2000

Critical Essays on Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Summer 2000

By A Lady: Jane Austen's Female Archetypes in Fiction and Film JASNA Newsletter Summer 2000

Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time JASNA Newsletter Spring 2000

Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character JASNA Newsletter Spring 2000

Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2000

A Closer Walk With God: Christian Insights from the Novels of Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Spring 2000

The Jane Austen Quiz Book JASNA Newsletter Spring 2000

The Author's Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel JASNA Newsletter Winter 1999

Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion JASNA Newsletter Winter 1999

Jane Austen, a volume in The British Library Writers' Lives series JASNA Newsletter Winter 1999

The Politics of Jane Austen JASNA Newsletter Winter 1999

A Transcription and Analysis of Jane Austen's Last Work, JASNA Newsletter Winter 1999

The Regency Underworld and An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England JASNA Newsletter Winter 1999

Almost Another Sister: Fanny Knight, Jane Austen's Favourite Niece JASNA Newsletter Summer 1999

Jane Austen in Hollywood JASNA Newsletter Summer 1999

Austen for All Ages JASNA Newsletter Summer 1999 (four books from the Juvenilia and a Collection of Letters)

Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists JASNA Newsletter Summer 1999

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England JASNA Newsletter Summer 1999

A Jane Austen Encyclopedia JASNA Newsletter Summer 1999

The Hearth of the Matter JASNA Newsletter Spring 1999 Three Reviews: Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home. By Monica E. Cohen. Cambridge University Press, 1998; The Victorian Governess. By Kathryn Hughes. Hambledon Press, 1993; and A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter. Edited by Joanna Martin. Reviewed by Laurie Kaplan.

Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility JASNA Newsletter Spring 1999

Cambridge University Press's edition of Pride and Prejudice JASNA Newsletter Spring 1999

The Making of Jane Austen's Emma and Jane Austen's Emma on Television JASNA Newsletter Spring 1999

Titles and Forms of Address JASNA Newsletter Spring 1999

How to Study an Austen Novel and Understanding Pride and Prejudice JASNA Newsletter Winter 1998

Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers JASNA Newsletter Winter 1998

Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections JASNA Newsletter Winter 1998

The British Housewife: or , the Cook, Housekeeper's and Garnener's Companion JASNA Newsletter Winter 1998

British Women Writers, 1700-1850: An Annotated Bibliography of Their Works and Works About Them JASNA Newsletter Winter 1998


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