Review of John Wiltshire: 'Recreating Jane Austen' Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 0 521 00282 6 $42.95

Title
Review of John Wiltshire: 'Recreating Jane Austen' Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 0 521 00282 6 $42.95
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Baxter, David John
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Association for the Teaching of English Inc
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:11789
Abstract
This book deals with 'Jane Austen', cultural icon, focusing in particular on the varying ways she has been recreated in biographies, literary criticism and film. A related theme is the nature of the re-creational impulse itself - what is the nature of the fascination with Jane Austen that writers and film makers have had, and why has her work been so frequently appropriated and transformed? Wiltshire identifies two types of re-creation: that which simply attempts to re-present the original text with the priority of being 'faithful' to it, a sort of homage (such as early BBC versions of the novels); and that which attempts to create a new text out of the old, which confronts and sometimes contests the assumptions of the original and by so doing establishes itself as new, a work of art in its own right (such as 'Clueless' and Patrick Rozeme's 1995 film of 'Mansfield Park').
Link
Citation
English in Australia, v.137, p. 55-55
ISSN
0155-2147
Start page
55
End page
55

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