Jane Austen's textual lives : from Aeschylus to Bollywood /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 'The making of England's Jane'. 'Everybody's dear Jane' ; Janites in the trenches ; R.W. Chapman restores civilization ; Territorial acts
- Personal obscurity and the biographer's baggage. Ground rules? ; Cassandra's legacies, or the family management of Jane Austen's life ; Two texts ; Secrets and lies, or managing the family ; Coda: portraits
- Manuscripts and the acts of writing. Dead ends and false starts ; "The Watsons": Jane Austen's other Bath novel ; "Persuasion": from manuscript to print ; "Sandition"
- Textual identities part I. 'Print settles it' ; Professional writer: Jane Austen's other identity, a digression ; 'The Steventon edition' ; Continuations: Anna Lefroy's "Sandition" and Catherine Hubback's "The younger sister"
- Speaking commas. 'A total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar' ; 'To an editor nothing is a trifle by which his authour is obscured' ; 'For this book is the talking voice that runs on'
- Textual identifies part II. 'The grammar of literary investigation': or, a brief history of textual criticism in the twentieth century ; Film as textual future.