| Verfasst von: | Wells, Juliette [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Reading Austen in America |
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| Verf.angabe: | Juliette Wells |
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| Verlagsort: | London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney |
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| Verlag: | Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
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| Jahr: | 2017 |
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| Umfang: | viii, 239 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Format: | 22 cm |
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| Fussnoten: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-224 |
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| Ang. zum Inhalt: | Introduction |
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| | Part one. The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and its readers. The origins of the first Austen novel printed in America |
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| | Tales of three copies : books, owners, and readers |
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| | An accomplished Scotswoman reads Austen abroad : Christian, Countess of Dalhousie in British North America |
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| | Part two. Transatlantic Austen conversations. Enthusiasts connected through the "electric telegraph of genius" : the Quincy sisters of Boston and the Francis W. Austen family of Portsmouth |
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| | Collectors and bibliographers : Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore and David J. Gilson of Oxford |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-350-01205-9 |
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| | 978-1-350-01204-2 |
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| Abstract: | "A vivid history of Jane Austen's American readers and fans, from her own day to the present"-- |
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| | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Reading Austen as an American -- 1. The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and Its Readers -- 2. Austen-Love in 19th-Century Boston -- 3. Collecting Austen in 20th-Century Baltimore -- 4. Austen Fandom in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| | Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light, Juliette Wells solves the long-standing bibliographical mystery of how and why the first Austen novel printed in America-the 1816 Philadelphia Emma-came to be. She reveals the responses of this book's varied readers and creates an extended portrait of one: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie, a Scotswoman living in British North America. Through original archival research, Wells establishes the significance to reception history of two transatlantic friendships: the first between ardent Austen enthusiasts in Boston and members of Austen's family in the nineteenth century, and the second between an Austen collector in Baltimore and an aspiring bibliographer in England in the twentieth. |
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| Schlagwörter: | (p)Austen, Jane / (s)Rezeption / (g)Nordamerika |
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| | (p)Austen, Jane / (g)USA / (s)Rezeption / (s)Lesen / (s)Buchhandel |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Wells, Juliette, 1977 - : Reading Austen in America.. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017. - 1 online resource (257 pages) |
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| | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Wells, Juliette, 1977 - : Reading Austen in America. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (x, 239 p) |
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| RVK-Notation: | HL 1685 |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 888050143 |
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