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Jane Austen™

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October 2009, no. 315

A Companion to Jane Austen edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite

Wiley-Blackwell, $245 hb, 487 pp

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Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen conquered the world by Claire Harman

Text Publishing, $34.95 pb, 350 pp

Jane Austen™

by
October 2009, no. 315

‘If you are afraid of half a dozen speeches,’ cries Mr Rushworth, as the rehearsals for Lovers’ Vows at Mansfield Park are getting underway, ‘what would you do with such a part as mine? I have forty-two to learn.’ Did the editors of the new Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen intend to evoke Mr Rushworth’s self-admiration or his barely disguised anxiety when they commissioned the forty-two essays of this plump, large-format book? The 1997 Cambridge Companionto Jane Austen, by comparison, seems exiguous: thirteen essays of about 7,000 words, edited by two of the Blackwell contributors (Juliet McMaster and Edward Copeland). An updated edition is due later this year, and indeed many of the Blackwell writers also appear in the Cambridge volume.

A Companion to Jane Austen

A Companion to Jane Austen

edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite

Wiley-Blackwell, $245 hb, 487 pp

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen conquered the world

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen conquered the world

by Claire Harman

Text Publishing, $34.95 pb, 350 pp

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