The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities)

[headline]Examines Jane Austen's engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her work Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games. [editor biographies]Joe Bray is Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of books and articles on fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including The Language of Jane Austen (2018) and The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period (2016). Hannah Moss works in the heritage industry. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Women's Writingo on the topic of women writers and the creative arts in Britain, 1660-1830. She has also published articles on Germaine de Staël, Ann Radcliffe and Felicia Hemans. List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Texts Introduction Part I: The Arts in Context 1. Jane Austen, Early Modern Aesthetics and Contemplative Sublimity 2. Taste and Passion, Disinterest and the Imagination 3. Jane Austen, Moral Philosophy and the Tradition 4. ‘Possessing a most exquisite taste in every species of literature’: Reading, Moral Taste and Creative Action in Jane Austen’s Novels 5. Reforming the Artist Heroine: Reading Sense and Sensibility (1811) as a Response to Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story (1796) 6. Picturing (In)Sensibility in Austen’s Novels and Print Culture 7. The Flemish Jane Austen Part II: The Arts in Austen 8. ‘The Creative Eye of Fancy’: Women, Visual Culture and the Female Gaze in Austen’s Novels 9. Shadow Portraits: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Silhouettes 10. Jane Austen and Crafts 11. Jane Austen’s Conversation Pieces 12. Jane Austen, Caricature and the Fat Self 13. Jane Austen and the Figure of the Body 14. ‘He has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people’: Austen’s Men and the Arts 15. Music in Jane Austen’s Novels 16. Jane Austen’s Dance Dialogues: Representing Dance in the Novels 17. The Paper Age: Jane Austen, Fashion and Finance 18. Jane Austen and the Theatre of Her Time 19. Jane Austen, Architecture and the Decorative Arts 20. Creators of Spaces: The Art of Owning, Inhabiting and Imagining Property in Jane Austen 21. ‘Nothing but pleasure from beginning to end’: Austen’s Gardens Part III: Afterlives 22. Jane Austen and the Letter 23. Austen in a Competitive Literary Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Editions 24. Jane Austen and the Imperfect Art of Translation 25. Dealing with Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novels: Completions of The Watsons and Sanditon 26. The Perils of Novelistic Adaptation: Death Comes to Pemberley, Longbourn and Pamela 27. When the Pen is in Fans’ Hands – The Jane Austen Fan Fiction Phenomenon 28. Locating Austen in Contemporary Theatre 29. ‘I am having a bit of a strange postmodern moment here’: Adapting Austen for Television 30. Theme Parks and Seaside Resorts: Rethinking Material and Visual Culture in Sanditon (2019) and Austenland (2013) 31. ‘Three or four families in a RPG’: Gaming and Jane Austen 32. Austen Reloaded: Digital Approaches to Jane Austen and the Arts 33. The Jane Austen Heritage Industry and Literary Tourism Notes on Contributors Index