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Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture

Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture

Pucci, Suzanne R.
Thompson, James

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791456161
ISBN13: 9780791456163
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 9 2003
Pages: 283
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other post-heritage films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

Jane Austen and Co. explores the ways in which classical novels-particularly, but not exclusively, those of Jane Austen-have been transformed into artifacts of contemporary popular culture. Examining recent films, television shows, Internet sites, and even historical tours, the book turns from the question of Austen's contemporary appeal to a broader consideration of other late-twentieth-century remakes, including Dangerous Liaisons, Dracula, Lolita, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Taken together, the essays in Jane Austen and Co. offer a wide-ranging model for understanding how all of these texts-visual, literary, touristic, British, American, French-reshape the past in the new fashions, styles, media, and desires of the present.

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