Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity by Janine Barch

Description: Matters of Fact in Jane Austen by Janine Barchas This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writers work. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austens novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Barchas is the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austens fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online. According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel. Of course, the argument that Austen deployed famous names presupposes an active celebrity culture during the Regency, a phenomenon recently accepted by scholars. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent.Barchas re-situates Austens work closer to the historical novels of her contemporary Sir Walter Scott and away from the domestic and biographical perspectives that until recently have dominated Austen studies. This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writers work. Back Cover In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity , Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austens novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent. "This is easily one of the most important books on Austen published in recent years, a must read. Thanks to fantastic volumes like this one... Austens books are finally being read and reassessed in the context of their times and are no longer given the backhanded compliment of being called timeless... Essential."-- Choice "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is unlike any previous work of Austen criticism, both in its attention to minute historical detail and in its pioneering claims... Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is meticulously researched, beautifully written, highly original, and unquestionably timely. It ought to stimulate not just rousing arguments but provoke, too, further historically attuned Austen scholarship."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "This is a book whose charm and clarity easily overcome any initial resistance one might have to its central claim that Austens work actively partakes in what historians now call celebrity culture... One of Barchass most surprising--and ultimately convincing--claims is that Austen, like James Joyce after her, not only names her fictional characters with uncanny historical precision but maps them with equal care through historical settings. She illustrates this with careful attention to Austens own historical reading and letters, prints of contemporary maps, portraits and country houses."-- Times Literary Supplement "An excellent example of a truly interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism."-- Review of English Studies Flap In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity , Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austens novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent. "This is easily one of the most important books on Austen published in recent years, a must read. Thanks to fantastic volumes like this one . . . Austens books are finally being read and reassessed in the context of their times and are no longer given the backhanded compliment of being called timeless . . . Essential."-- Choice "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is unlike any previous work of Austen criticism, both in its attention to minute historical detail and in its pioneering claims . . . Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is meticulously researched, beautifully written, highly original, and unquestionably timely. It ought to stimulate not just rousing arguments but provoke, too, further historically attuned Austen scholarship."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "This is a book whose charm and clarity easily overcome any initial resistance one might have to its central claim that Austens work actively partakes in what historians now call celebrity culture . . . One of Barchass most surprising--and ultimately convincing--claims is that Austen, like James Joyce after her, not only names her fictional characters with uncanny historical precision but maps them with equal care through historical settings. She illustrates this with careful attention to Austens own historical reading and letters, prints of contemporary maps, portraits and country houses."-- Times Literary Supplement "An excellent example of a truly interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism."-- Review of English Studies Author Biography Janine Barchas is a professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel and the creator of the What Jane Saw website: Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: "History, real solemn history" in Austen1. "Quite unconnected": The Wentworths and Lady Susan2. Mapping Northanger Abbey to Find "Old Allen" of Prior Park3. Touring Farleigh Hungerford Castle and Remembering Mis Tilney-Long4. "The Celebrated Mr. Evelyn" of Silva in Burney and Austen5. Hell-Fire Jane: Dashwood Celebrity and Sense and Sensibility6. Persuasions Battle of the Books: Baronetage versus Navy ListAfterword: Jane Austens Fictive NetworkNotesIndex Review An impeccably researched new book. Examiner.com Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is unlike any previous work of Austen criticism, both in its attention to minute historical detail and in its pioneering claims... [It] is meticulously researched, beautifully written, highly original, and unquestionably timely. It ought to stimulate not just rousing arguments but provoke, too, further historically attuned Austen scholarship. -- Devoney Looser Los Angeles Review of Books This is a book whose charm and clarity easily overcome any initial resistance one might have to its central claim that Austens work actively partakes in what historians now call celebrity culture... One of Barchass most surprising-and ultimately convincing-claims is that Austen, like James Joyce after her, not only names her fictional characters with uncanny historical precision but maps them with equal care through historical settings. She illustrates this with careful attention to Austens own historical reading and letters, prints of contemporary maps, portraits and country houses. -- Jonathan Sachs Times Literary Supplement This is easily one of the most important books on Austen published in recent years, a must read. Thanks to fantastic volumes like this one... Austens books are finally being read and reassessed in the context of their times and are no longer given the backhanded compliment of being called timeless... Essential. (Named by Choice in its list of Outstanding Academic Titles, 2013) Choice A provocative, suggestive, and original book which makes a genuine contribution to scholarship on Jane Austen... It is an excellent example of a truly interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. -- Katie Halsey Review of English Studies This is a huge achievement. -- Sarah Raff Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies The author seeks to pull Austen away from her timelessness... Jane is not just a keen observer of those 3 or 4 families but of all the aristocracy famous or scandalous enough to make the papers... In a world where feminine accomplishments and interests are still denigrated and marginalized, its important to pull Jane out of the parlor. Plot Driven Moving away from domesticity and beyond broad social history, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen proceeds as a series of detailed case studies that, taken together, make a strong argument for Austen as a popular culture aficionado and for scholars attachment to her vaunted timelessness as a disservice to her powers of observation and allusion. -- Laura E. Thomason, Middle Georgia State College ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts One of the most elegant new critical books Ive encountered recently... a very original and well-researched, sometimes mind-blowing study of the numerous real-world people who stand behind individual Austen characters. Barchas is stunning, for example, on Northanger Abbey, one of Austens more elusive fictions. -- Terry Castle The Lumiere Reader Meticulous will also inevitably be the word most often used to describe Janine Barchass latest book. The research that has informed Matters of Fact in Jane Austen:History, Location, and Celebrity is abundant and careful, making this a fascinating and fresh take on Austen studies. Much like the What Jane Saw website, the bookstarts from the contention that Austen was well aware of and sensitive to the news and newsmakers of her day, and that the realities of her specific historical moment influence aspects of her novels. Studies in the Novel Critics have often recognized Austens care with locational details in particular, but have done little more. Barchass compelling geographical and spatial arguments... had me reading with my iPad in hand, toggling between various maps of Bath and the book ... A Google maps assignment awaits my England summer study-abroad students-cum-surveyors. Eighteenth-Century Fiction Janine Barchass well-researched and beautifully written book recovers some interesting historical contexts for once-celebrated names from Britains historical past... Matters of Fact [is] a book that every reader will find profitable and delightful to peruse. -- Linda Troost JASNA News In this absorbing study, Barchas unearths real people, events, and locations. -- Kim Wheatley Eighteenth-Century Life Intriguing, witty, and detailed re-examination of character in Austen... Barchas makes a compelling case for her theories and writes with wit and elegance. The book is generously illustrated and unfolds at times almost like a detective story. Original and exciting, its a must read for any serious -- or even not-so-serious -- Austen fan. Jane Austens Regency World Magazine Janine Barchas persuasively positions Austen as a local and national historian. In a study which discusses Lady Susan, Northanger Abbey, Evelyn, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasiion, Barchas uncovers the complex and subtle contexts, connotations, and resonances of Austens material culture and character names. Years Work in English Studies Janine Barchass thought-provoking study of Austens naming practices unearths a wealth of historical antecedents for Austens characters and posits an Austen whose gamesmanship with the names of persons and places rivals the knowingness and playfulness of James Joyce. Journal of British Studies Promotional In a lively and formidably informed study, Janine Barchas buries the lingering myth of Jane Austen as a cloistered rectory daughter, and convincingly reconstructs her as a local and national historian-and moreover a confirmed name-dropper who subtly manipulates the celebrity culture of her day. -- Juliet McMaster, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta Renovating the historicist pedantry of readers like Vladimir Nabokov, who plotted geographical locales and estimated room dimensions in the margins of his teaching copy of Mansfield Park, Janine Barchas remaps the coordinates of Austens fictive world as nodal points in a network of real names of glamorous places and people-Wentworth, Wodehouse, DArcy, and Fitzwilliam among them. Matters of Fact in Jane Austen is too modest a title for this prescient book, in which facts matter as markers of Austens creative method, authorizing the vividness of her charismatically alluring characters and plots. -- Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English, Yale University, and author of It Long Description In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austens novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Barchas is the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austens fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online. According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterises the realist novel. Of course, the argument that Austen deployed famous names presupposes an active celebrity culture during the Regency, a phenomenon recently accepted by scholars. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent. Barchas re-situates Austens work closer to the historical novels of her contemporary Sir Walter Scott and away from the domestic and biographical perspectives that until recently have dominated Austen studies. This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writers work. Review Text ""Like a thrilling detective story, Barchass study consistently and pleasurably overcomes the incredulity and skepticism it provokes. Besides inspiring serious and sustained reassessment of Austens novels, Barchass findings may also lead us to re-examine long settled conclusions regarding the dates of Austens compositions and revisions... One hopes that Barchass method might be usefully applied to Austens contemporaries in order to further evaluate the relationships between matters of fact and the periods fiction."" Review Quote This is easily one of the most important books on Austen published in recent years, a must read. Thanks to fantastic volumes like this one... Austens books are finally being read and reassessed in the context of their times and are no longer given the backhanded compliment of being called timeless... Essential. (Named by Choice in its list of Outstanding Academic Titles, 2013) Promotional "Headline" Discover the links between characters in Jane Austen novels and real-life celebrities of the time. Details ISBN1421411911 Author Janine Barchas Audience Age 17 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2013 ISBN-10 1421411911 ISBN-13 9781421411910 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle History, Location, and Celebrity Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 823.7 Short Title MATTERS OF FACT IN JANE AUSTEN Language English Media Book Affiliation University of Texas at Austin Pages 336 Illustrations 48 Illustrations, black and white Publication Date 2013-09-09 NZ Release Date 2013-09-09 US Release Date 2013-09-09 UK Release Date 2013-09-09 Alternative 9781421406404 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2013-07-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161819168;

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