Wild for Austen a rebellious, subversive, and untamed Jane
"Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser. Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in...
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New York, NY :
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Austen gone wild
- Fierce, wild, and ruthless : Austen's juvenilia
- The controversial case of Sophia Sentiment
- Running wild : the winning immorality of Lady Susan
- Wildest : Sense and sensibility (1811)
- Almost wild : Pride and prejudice (1813)
- Bewildering Mansfield Park (1814)
- Wild speculation : Emma (1816)
- Wild to know : Northanger Abbey (1818)
- The young people were all wild : Persuasion (1818)
- Wild-goose chase : unfinished Sanditon
- Oh, subjects rebellious : the Watsons and Last words
- Jane, the wild beast, and the progressive Burdetts
- Cousin Eliza's statesman, singer, and spy
- The Leighs as learned literary ladies
- The sensational shoplifting trial of Aunt Jane Leigh Perrot
- Three Austen brothers and the abolition of slavery
- The Austen family legacy, suffrage, and anti-suffrage
- Seeing Jane Austen's ghost
- Sense and sensibility goes to court
- Jane's imaginary lover in Switzerland
- Almost Pride and prejudice : the wild films that never were
- Wild and wanton : the rise of Austen erotica
- Loving (and hating) Jane Austen
- Coda: Austen after 250.
