Uses of Austen

Dow, Gillian; Hanson, Clare

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“…In terms of studies focused on specific 18th-century topics, there is an established and substantial body of work that explores mediation, book history, and print culture, and cultural memory in the 18th century is also a growing area of study. Fruitful connections with memory, for example, have been made in scholarly works examining slavery and Britain's imperial project (Bordin & Scacchi, 2015;Kaplan & Oldfield, 2010;Mallipeddi, 2016;Morris, 2015) and those considering the legacy of particular literary figures such as Jane Austen (Dow & Hanson, 2012;Dryden, 2013;Looser, 2017;Troost, 2000), Robert Burns (Alker, Davis, and Nelson, 2012), and Shakespeare (Halsey & Vine, 2018). Moreover, there are also number of works on 18th-century studies that do not articulate a direct connection with the wider field of memory studies, although they do concern memory.…”

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Memory studies and the eighteenth century

Davis

2019

Literature Compass

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In Memory in Culture, Astrid Erll contends that if we want to understand the various crises of the present, we need to consider the “mental, discursive, and habitual paradigms that were formed in long historical processes – via cultural memory.” In the current climate of debates about the national past, it is timely to take stock of the field of memory studies, as such studies can help us understand, as Ann Rigney suggests, “how stories about the past emerge as common points of reference and, in the process, help to define collective identities.” This article will provide some background to the field of memory studies and discuss two important new directions in the field: a concern with the mediation of memory and an interest in postcolonial, transnational, and “traveling” memory. The specific objective is to consider the relevance of memory studies for scholars of 18th‐century literature and, conversely, the relevance of 18th‐century literature for the field of memory studies. The broader aim is to encourage further work that will focus attention on the constructedness of even the most long‐standing and pervasive national memories.

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Section: Media and Cultural Memorymentioning

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Memory studies and the eighteenth century

Davis

2019

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Jane Austen on the Global Stage

Fraiman¹

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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Jane Austen is known for depicting intimate relationships within a narrow, domestic compass. Recent critics have, however, demonstrated her engagement with a wide range of topical issues: the French Revolution and Enlightenment feminism; the status of the British navy and British imperialism; life inflected by the Napoleonic Wars. Beyond this worldliness in her own time, Austen's novels have gone on to develop a global fan base comparable to Shakespeare's. My reading of a 1964 musical version of Pride and Prejudice issued in Johannesburg, South Africa, illustrates the exceptional portability of her concerns. Even more, it shows the retooling of her work to address new circumstances – here, to reflect the apprehensions of Anglophone whites during a particularly repressive decade of the apartheid era.

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Eternally Yours: Jane Austen as Vampire

Parisot

2024

Palgrave Gothic

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Uses of Austen

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Memory studies and the eighteenth century

Memory studies and the eighteenth century

Jane Austen on the Global Stage

Eternally Yours: Jane Austen as Vampire

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