Illuminate the Shadows by Isobel Starling

Films directly based on the novels are not the only ones discussed, for perhaps even more interesting are others which, besides imitating her work, raise in the course of their action and dialogue the nature and status of ‘Jane Austen’ within our culture.

But it does not offer a systematic study of any one of these films: instead it makes use of them, or parts of some of them, in order to throw renewed light upon the classic texts from which they derive and depart, and to propose a general theory of adaptation. This book derives its inspiration, in part, from the recent crop of films based on Jane Austen’s novels. Notes A note on films cited Bibliography Index The genius and the facilitating environment Pride and Prejudice, love and recognition From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion An Englishwoman’s constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless Introduction: ‘Jane Austen’ and Jane Austen Preface and acknowledgments A note on texts PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING) FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia © John Wiltshire 2001 This edition © John Wiltshire 2003 First published in printed format 2001Ī catalogue record for the original printed book is available from the British Library and from the Library of Congress Original ISBN 6 6 hardback Original ISBN 2 6 paperback R E C R E A T I NG JANE AUSTEN JOHN WIL TSHIRE He is also a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson and The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. His previous books include Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: the Doctor and the patient (Cambridge, ) and Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health’ (Cambridge, ).

         is a Reader in English at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Exploring the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, ‘Jane Austen’ as a commodity, and offering a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice, this book approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination. Wiltshire illuminates the process of ‘recreation’ through the work of the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, and offers Jane Austen’s own relation to Shakespeare as a suggestive parallel. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen’s novels, John Wiltshire examines how they have been transposed and ‘recreated’ in another age and medium.

Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen’s work.

Illuminate the Shadows by Isobel Starling