The Genius Of Jane Austen: Her Love Of Theatre And Why She Is A Hit In Hollywood paperback english - 12 July 2018
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| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| ISBN 13 | 9780008225698 |
| Book Subtitle | Her Love Of Theatre And Why She Is A Hit In Hollywood |
| Book Description | A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation in amateur theatricals. Her juvenilia, then Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma were shaped by the arts of theatrical comedy. Her admiration for drama's dialogue, characterisation, plotting, exits and entrances is why she has been dramatised so successfully on screen in the last twenty years - and these versions are at the centre of her continuing fame, culminating in her celebration on GBP10 note. Austen expert and author of The Real Jane Austen, Paula Byrne looks at stage adaptations of Austen's novels (including one called Miss Elizabeth Bennet by A. A. Milne) to modern classics, including the BBC Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility, and the phenomenally brilliant and successful Clueless, The Genius of Jane Austen presents an Austen not of prim manners and genteel calm, but filled with wild comedy and outrageous behaviour. |
| Editorial Review | `I relished every page ... Byrne's knowledge of everything Austen wrote has an enviable thoroughness and perception which is rare among Austen scholars and which illuminates the whole of her text. I am tempted to say this is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read.' Paul Johnson, The Spectator `A definitive and pioneering study of a wholly neglected aspect of Austen's art' Michael Caines, Times Literary Supplement `A fascinating analysis that marries meticulous historical research with critical imagination and flair' The Historical Journal |
| About the Author | Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies `Perdita', `Mad World', `The Real Jane Austen', `Belle' and `Kick'. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation, a charity devoted to the mental health benefits of reading. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Paula Byrne |
| Publication Date | 12 July 2018 |
| Number of Pages | 352 |
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