List of Contributors
Introduction by Michael Kramp
The Cultural Work of Austen's Life and Afterlives
Lady Oracle: Jane Austen as High Priestess of Modern Romance or Secret Icon of Female Independence
Megan A. Woodworth
Jane Austen in Australia and New Zealand
Joanne Wilkes
"This is 1806, for Heaven’s sake!": The Tension between Nostalgia and Feminism in Austen Adaptation and YouTube FanVids
Rebecca White
Identity, Relationality, and Community
Logical Time in Austen's Persuasion: Desire and the Unproductive Anxious Interval
Isabelle Michalski and David Sigler
Pride and Prejudice and the Comedy of the Universal
Daniela Garofalo
Autonomy Will Set You Free, Or Will It?: Autonomy, Precarity and Survival
Enit Karafili Steiner
The Shrewdness of Sophia Croft in Persuasion
Natasha Duquette
The Known and the Possible in Austen
Austen’s Theory of Change
Kate Singer
Jane Austen’s Angry Inch: The Nonbinary Son-to-Come
Chris Washington
Pleasure and Danger: Theorizing Adolescence in and Through Austen
Shawn Lisa Maurer
The Vitality of Austen
The Austenian Mise-en-Scène
Christopher C. Nagle
Wickham Then and Now: From Historical Masculinity to Toxic Masculinity
Kit Kincade
Jane Austen, Feminist Legal Philosopher
Sarah Ailwood
Index
Biography
Michael Kramp is Professor of English at Lehigh University, USA. He is the author of Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (2007) and editor of Jane Austen and Masculinity (2017).
