some Tumblr catch-up
Feb. 5th, 2019 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghrainekairia on Tumblr asked:
Hello, I chanced upon your meta about Jane Austen and loving all of it and leisurely making my way through the tags. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to share any papers on Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice. Just the names would be great.
I said:
Thanks!
Hmm, Persuasion is pretty late for my interests, so I don’t read much on it. There is a ton of scholarship connected to P&P, though a lot of it is flawed by more preoccupation with pet theories than the details of the text, many of which can and do undercut the entire thesis (/not bitter). I’ve probably read more books I like than articles.
Everything I’ve read by John Wiltshire is great (apart from some psychoanalytic nonsense). I tend to like Claudia Johnson. Janine Barchas has some interesting stuff on Austen and celebrity culture (and specifically on Austen’s weird fixation on the RL Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam clan, building on the work of Donald Greene decades earlier). Julia Prewitt Brown is solid. Reuben Brower’s “Light and Bright and Sparkling” is good, but I’m not sure if it’s accessible online—I had to dig around quite a bit for it when I was an undergrad. I thiiink the P&P chapter of Howard S. Babb’s Jane Austen’s Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue might be online, and I enjoy that.
Those are the first to come to mind, but there are others. If you really want to get into Austen lit-crit, I would suggest just jumping over to Google Scholar, throwing some search terms at it, and seeing what comes up. Same with JSTOR. There are also a bunch of essays (of varying quality, but some quite good) published by the Jane Austen Society of North America, which are searchable here.
Hello, I chanced upon your meta about Jane Austen and loving all of it and leisurely making my way through the tags. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to share any papers on Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice. Just the names would be great.
I said:
Thanks!
Hmm, Persuasion is pretty late for my interests, so I don’t read much on it. There is a ton of scholarship connected to P&P, though a lot of it is flawed by more preoccupation with pet theories than the details of the text, many of which can and do undercut the entire thesis (/not bitter). I’ve probably read more books I like than articles.
Everything I’ve read by John Wiltshire is great (apart from some psychoanalytic nonsense). I tend to like Claudia Johnson. Janine Barchas has some interesting stuff on Austen and celebrity culture (and specifically on Austen’s weird fixation on the RL Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam clan, building on the work of Donald Greene decades earlier). Julia Prewitt Brown is solid. Reuben Brower’s “Light and Bright and Sparkling” is good, but I’m not sure if it’s accessible online—I had to dig around quite a bit for it when I was an undergrad. I thiiink the P&P chapter of Howard S. Babb’s Jane Austen’s Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue might be online, and I enjoy that.
Those are the first to come to mind, but there are others. If you really want to get into Austen lit-crit, I would suggest just jumping over to Google Scholar, throwing some search terms at it, and seeing what comes up. Same with JSTOR. There are also a bunch of essays (of varying quality, but some quite good) published by the Jane Austen Society of North America, which are searchable here.
