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Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees
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Important concepts
This is a list of concepts that we may want to address in the article:
 * Austen's minimalist style
 * Austen's irony
 * the genre of the novel of manners (including: the small compass of the topics, relation to fairy tales); country-house novel
 * importance of reading and re-reading in the novels
 * Austen's political leanings; to what extent Austen is a political writer at all
 * Austen's feminism - to what extent is she a feminist?
 * Austen's view of history
 * the theme of the heroine's "imprisonment"
 * economics: attention to details of money and its legal entanglements; class differentiation
 * what is characteristic of the juvenilia vs. the early novels vs. the late novels
 * self vs. society / self in society
 * conversations about literature as a means of assessing the morality of characters
 * the presence or absence, and role, of an older (usually male) mentor
 * the corruption characteristic of town (London, Portsmouth) versus the "health" of life in the country

Quotations
This is a list of famous Austen quotations that we might think about including in our discussion of her works.

Collaboration on notes

 * Galperin, William (2003). The Historical Austen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-812-23687-4.

Awadewit's homework

 * Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, eds. Jane Austen in Hollywood

Simmaren's Reading List
Strike-out indicates extent to which work read and notes written


 * Alexander, Christine and Juliet McMaster, editors, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge U. K. 2005 [ISBN 10-0-521-81293-3]
 * Butler, Marilyn Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Oxford University Press (Oxford 1975) [ISBN 0-19-812968-8]
 * Collins, Irene Jane Austen and the Clergy, The Hambledon Press (London 1994) [ISBN 1-85285-114-7]
 * Doody, Margaret Anne "Jane Austen's Reading," The Jane Austen Companion. Macmillan Publishing Company (New York 1986) [ISBN 0-02-545540-0]
 * Duckworth, Alistair  The Improvement of the Estate, Johns Hopkins University Press(Baltimore 1971)  [ISBN 0-8018-1269-0]
 * Gay, Penny Jane Austen and the Theatre, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge 2002) [ISBN 0-521-65213-8]
 * Grey, J. David (managing editor ) The Jane Austen Companion, Macmillan Publishing Company (New York 1986) [ISBN 0-52-545540-0]
 * Harding, D. W., "Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen," in Ian Watt, editor, Jane Austen: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs 1963) [Library of Congress Catalog No. 63-9516], pp. 166-179
 * Jenkyns, Richard A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Oxford University Press (Oxford 2004) [ISBN 0-19-927761-7]
 * Lascelles, Mary Jane Austen and Her Art, Oxford University Press (Oxford 1966) [reprint]
 * Litz, A. Walton Jane Austen: A Study of Her Development, Oxford University Press (New York 1965)
 * MacDonagh, Oliver Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Yale University Press (New Haven 1991)[ISBN 0-300-05084-4]
 * Mudrick, Marvin. Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery, University of California Press (Berkeley 1952)
 * Sutherland, Kathryn Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood Oxford University Press (Oxford 2005) [ISBN 0-19-925872-4]
 * Todd, Janet (editor) Jane Austen In Context, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U. K. 2005) [ISBN 0-521-82644-6]
 * Waldron, Mary Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge U. K., 1999) [ISBN 0-521-00388-1]
 * Watt, Ian (editor) Jane Austen: A Collection of Critical Essays,  Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs 1963) [ISBN 0-130-53769-0]
 * Wiltshire, John Recreating Jane Austen, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U. K. 2001) [ISBN 0-521-00282-6]
 * Wiltshire, John Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U. K. 1992) [ISBN 0-521-41476-8]

Books for later

 * Judy Simons, ed. Jane Austen and Cinema
 * Judy Simons, "Classics and Trash: Reading Austen in the 1990s" Women's Writing 5 (1998): 27-39