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����Searching for Jane Austen demolishes with wit and vivacity the often-held view of "Jane," a decorous maiden aunt writing her small drawing-room stories of teas and balls. Emily Auerbach presents a different Jane Austen—a brilliant writer who, despite the obstacles facing women of her time, worked seriously on improving her craft and became one of the world’s greatest novelists, a master of wit, irony, and character development.
����In this beautifully illustrated and lively work, Auerbach surveys two centuries of editing, censoring, and distorting Austen’s life and writings. Auerbach samples Austen’s flamboyant, risqu� adolescent works featuring heroines who get drunk, lie, steal, raise armies, and throw rivals out of windows. She demonstrates that Austen constantly tested and improved her skills by setting herself a new challenge in each of her six novels.
����In addition, Auerbach considers Austen’s final irreverent writings, discusses her tragic death at the age of forty-one, and ferrets out ridiculous modern adaptations and illustrations, including ads, cartoons, book jackets, newspaper articles, plays, and films from our own time. An appendix reprints a ground-breaking article that introduced Mark Twain’s "Jane Austen," an unfinished and unforgettable essay in which Twain and Austen enter into mortal combat.�
- Sales Rank: #2321888 in Books
- Published on: 2006-01-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .80" w x 6.00" l, 1.05 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 358 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Many of Austen's detractors, and even quite a few of her fans, regard "Jane" as a dull homebody who wrote light, fluffy books for girls. "This attitude must end," Auerbach fumes as she tries to "strip off [the] ruffles and ringlets" that have shaped the author's public image. The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor. Close readings of the novels, as well as the often ignored "juvenilia," reveal a rich literary sensibility dense with allusion—if you haven't read Austen already, the microscopic attention to detail here will make you pick up her books. Auerbach's scholarly background in 19th-century literature (she's a professor of English at University of Wisconsin–Madison) serves her well in this analysis, but her revisionist approach is most engaging when it wrestles with her subject's public image. She demonstrates how Austen's own family whitewashed that image by suppressing much of her correspondence, and riffs through an assortment of modern portrayals that bear little resemblance to the woman Auerbach uncovers. Like Austen's, Auerbach's humor can be sly. Subtly questioning Mark Twain's professed hatred of Austen, she imagines the pair as Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen. Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here, though the high price may prove an obstacle. B&w illus.
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From Booklist
The maiden aunt at the tea table is the idea many readers have of Jane Austen, an idea promulgated by her own family and perpetuated by Jane Austen societies and film representations of her novels. Auerbach, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to show that the cozy domestic image is belied by Austen's own writings, beginning with her juvenilia. This "search" for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view. It can be difficult to get past the lace cap and tea cosy and appreciate how deeply Austen penetrated the social fabric that seems so charming to the modern reader. This book probably won't appeal to fans who are content with the charm, but has much to offer those who want to explore Austen's art more fully. Mary Ellen Quinn
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“Scholarly efforts at clarification of Austen's political sympathies are sometimes accompanied by efforts at reconstruction not of Austen but of her readers, as where Auerbach's stated purpose is to dispel popular notions of Austen as limited and priggish, and to redress ‘two centuries of putdowns and touch-ups.’ Though one would have thought these notions had long since been outmoded, she shows that, surprisingly enough, they persist, not only among readers of the recent past but in present-day students and readers as well, perhaps even, judging from her apologetics, Auerbach herself. . . . Her detailed knowledge of Austen's sources does give us a more complete impression of Austen's wide and eclectic interests.”—New York Review of Books
"This 'search' for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view."—Booklist
"Emily Auerbach's approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly, and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner. A witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today's readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer."—Margaret Drabble, editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature
“Any fan of Austen will find Searching... an invaluable and most refreshing companion to the novels.”—Isthmus
"Emily Auerbach writes with grace and elegance, and her prose is a pleasure to read." —Juliet McMaster, author of Jane Austen the Novelist and Jane Austen in Love
"Searching for Jane Austen is innovative, indeed revolutionary, in the best sense of the word, and will take its place as a major study of Jane Austen’s work."—Joseph Wiesenfarth, author of Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
finally, a fresh view of jane austen
By Altica
What a wonderful addition to the genre. A fresh view of Jane Austen as anything but a quiet spinster. Fabulous research on the ways her family tried to sanitize her image, and the ways publishers and critics have fallen for this trick, to the point of revising her very appearance. For the sassy author of books that pointedly, acidly and poignantly highlighted the constraints faced by women, the constricted view of Austen herself seems like some kind of perverse performance art. Auerbach's book gives Austen back her original appearance and her original personality. You will enjoy it. Guaranteed.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
An excellent book on the image vs the reality of Jane Austen
By Elizabeth A. Root
Emily Auerbach may be in danger of being drummed out of academia for writing a book that is so well-researched and so detailed, and yet so readable. Auerbach's concern is the attempts by Austen's relatives and earlier literary critics to present Austen as a meek and mild cardboard saint. There is nothing particularly new in this idea, but it is very well and thoroughly done. While several biographers have made similar arguments, none is a thorough and convincing as this specialized monograph.
Auerbach pays particular attention to the representations of Austen. She seems to feel that the portrait by Austen's sister Cassandra is the only valid image. Well, arguably it is the only portrait that shows her face. Auerbach does not examine other representations of doubtful authenticity. While I see what she is driving at, I think this is perhaps a trifle overdone. Cassandra's portrait is rough and unfinished, and I wonder whether it would have been used prior to some of the aesthetic changes of "modern art", even if JA looked timid and pious. The two most commonly reproduced engravings really don't strike me as such terrible revisions of Cassandra's portrait, with the significant exception of removing the lines around the mouth, and in one case, adding a wedding ring. I don't think the ruffles are a serious distortion: it's not like JA was in the habit of dressing like a man or a particularly no-nonsense Puritan. She may have had ruffles: CA's portrait is too unfinished to assert that she didn't. At least she is still wearing her habitual cap, unlike the portrait that shows her with her hair fashionably dressed. The issues of the lines around the mouth does reveal one tension in the book (and in several recent works about JA): Auerbach is rather annoyed that Valerie Myers describes JA as looking like a peevish hamster in CA's portrait. I would have said guinea pig was more like it, but what if she does? One the one hand, Auerbach seems to want warts and all, and on the other she seems to want to insist that there were no warts. I am not certain what Auerbach is saying about the picture that represents JA sitting by a Hollywood swimming pool talking on her cell phone, but I love that particular picture -- I think it's a hoot.
But, forget trivial cavils. The most important distortions are in the written record; Auerbach has obviously done heroic research and thoroughly supports her opinions about written materials. The critiques that she has made of certain books that I liked make me want to rush back and reread them in the light of her remarks. At one point, Auerbach begins an indepth analysis of the poem from which a quote is taken. I was originally somewhat dubious about this: sometimes when I quote a line out of context, I mean it to be understood out of context, but she carefully show how the quotes throughout the book complement and support one another. I was converted to her point of view.
Auerbach believes in my favorite Jane Austen; almost terrifyingly perceptive and well aware that life is complex and there are few simple answers. Auerbach seems to have a thorough understanding of the literature and was very taken with most of her arguments.
The book has numerous blank-and-white illustrations.
I would recommend this to any Jane Austen collection.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A Monumental Search
By M. Bloomer
Jane Austen's clergyman brother, along with other relatives, seemed to have some misguided need to present an image of her to the public which, sadly, has endured. Emily Auerbach, through a prodigious examination of Austen's novels and other writings dispels this myth of a docile, sweet, and gentle Jane Austen. I like to picture Ms. Austen giving a hearty salute to Ms. Auerbach for what she has accomplished with this book.
An added bonus is to be found in the appendix in which Auerbach examines the question, "Did Mark Twain really hate Jane Austen?" I think her answer is "dead-on" right.
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