{"product_id":"the-making-of-jane-austen-devoney-looser-9781421422824","title":"The Making of Jane Austen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing room audiences. Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane Austen dissertation, student George Pellew, tragically died young, but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, to have come back from the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen's reputation, just as she profoundly shaped theirs. Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary and cultural power. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Devoney Looser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421422824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421422824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018","brand":"Devoney Looser","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241265148159,"sku":"9781421422824","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4bd4ee7c-538b-4ce3-ad7f-eef88aa28a7b.jpg?v=1772653599","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-making-of-jane-austen-devoney-looser-9781421422824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}