Reading Austen in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350012042)

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.

Author: Juliette Wells
ISBN-10: 1350012041
ISBN-13: 9781350012042
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017
Library Journal 10/01/2017
Choice 06/01/2018