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Expanding Austenland

Auteure: Áine Madden

Nombre de pages: 344

Expanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive explores Jane Austen’s reception in popular culture through an exploration of the ever-expanding terrain of online fanfiction, professionally published (profic) texts, and other intertextual reworkings inspired by the author’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. The book argues that given its pervasiveness, Pride and Prejudice could be usefully considered not as a single novel, but as an entire ‘archive’ of interrelated texts, or as a portal that opens a ‘virtual world’ for readers to expand and explore. By examining the Pride and Prejudice archive of interrelated texts, this book analyses the process through which an individual novel can develop a virtual life, or afterlife. The evolving world that is opened by Pride and Prejudice, and extended and enriched through fanfiction, is conceptualised in the monograph as ‘Austenland’.

Midnight in Austenland

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 290

Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park, a Jane Austen-themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out, this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts are racing and stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues - real and pretend, sinister and romantic - increasingly tough to sort out. It's midnight in Austenland, and Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine worthy of Austen herself.

Coup de Foudre à Austenland

Auteure: Shannon Hale , Julia Taylor

Nombre de pages: 327

Coup de foudre à Austenland

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 278

Jane Hayes est une jeune New Yorkaise en apparence tout à fait normale, mais elle a un secret: son obsession secrète pour Mr Darcy, ou plus précisément pour Colin Firth jouant Mr Darcy dans l'adaptation télé de l’œuvre de Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (Orgueil et préjudice). Résultat, sa vie amoureuse est proche du néant: aucun homme n’est à la hauteur de la comparaison. Quand une riche parente lui laisse en héritage un séjour de 3 semaines dans un centre chic pour les Austen-addicts, les fantasmes de Jane impliquant une rencontre fortuite avec un héros romantique tiré tout droit du XIXe siècle deviennent un peu trop réels. Cette immersion dans cet Austenland réussira-t-elle à débarrasser Jane de son obsession pour lui permettre de rencontrer un vrai Mr. Darcy?

Retelling Jane Austen

Auteure: Tammy Powley , April Van Camp

Nombre de pages: 227

Jane Austen wrote for a Regency-period audience and could never have predicted the lasting success of her original works. The slew of variations and adaptations of Austen's works in both film and novels has grown into an industry with a fan base clamoring for more. This collection fills a gap in Austen scholarship, examining universal and contemporary themes in the original literature and how the works have been adapted since 2000 onward. Essays explore Austen retellings with a New York City setting, Jane Austen and Islamic culture, and even a plot with zombies. This volume demonstrates Jane Austen's enduring talent and relevancy.

Transmedia Storytelling

Auteure: Jennifer Camden , Kate Faber Oestreich

Nombre de pages: 193

This volume charts the evolution of Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of nineteenth-century novels in order to interrogate the uneasy relationship between transmedia storytelling and consumer culture. It first examines two Austen-centered films, Lost in Austen and Austenland, that present “immersive” Austen experiences that anticipate Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations, bridging traditional film adaptations and transmedia’s participatory culture. Subsequent chapters turn to Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of Austen’s and Shelley’s novels to argue that, although such adaptations may appear feminist in their emphasis on female protagonists, their larger narratives expose a subtext of anxiety about unstable gender roles, financial vulnerability, and the undervaluation of career-specific skill sets, both for the characters and the production company itself. The study provides a robust theoretical framework within which to read transmedia adaptations of “classic literature,” illuminating both the potential of, and the challenges facing, digital and transmedia storytellers and participants.

Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015

Auteure: Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Nombre de pages: 139

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television’s fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the book examines how these works represented the eighteenth century to assuage anxieties about values, systems, and institutions at the start of a new millennium. The first two chapters reveal how films like Gulliver’s Travels (2010) or the remake of Poldark (2015) use history to establish the direct relationship between the eighteenth century and the twenty-first. The final chapters examine pairs of productions for how they address and legitimate different aspects of contemporary ideology such as attitudes toward race and gender, or the connection between technological and social progress.

After Austen

Auteure: Lisa Hopkins

Nombre de pages: 294

This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen’s books.

Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts

Auteure: Hannah Moss , Joe Bray

Nombre de pages: 609

Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games.

Handbook of Research on Transmedia Storytelling, Audience Engagement, and Business Strategies

Auteure: Hernández-santaolalla, Víctor , Barrientos-bueno, Mónica

Nombre de pages: 486

As media evolves with technological improvement, communication changes alongside it. In particular, storytelling and narrative structure have adapted to the new digital landscape, allowing creators to weave immersive and enticing experiences that captivate viewers. These experiences have great potential in marketing and advertising, but the medium’s methods are so young that their potential and effectiveness is not yet fully understood. Handbook of Research on Transmedia Storytelling, Audience Engagement, and Business Strategies is a collection of innovative research that explores transmedia storytelling and digital marketing strategies in relation to audience engagement. Highlighting a wide range of topics including promotion strategies, business models, and prosumers and influencers, this book is ideally designed for digital creators, advertisers, marketers, consumer analysts, media professionals, entrepreneurs, managers, executives, researchers, academicians, and students.

Coup de foudre à Austenland

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 327

Romantic Capabilities

Auteure: Mike Goode

Nombre de pages: 321

Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume contends that how a literary text behaves when it encounters new media reveals medial capabilities of the text that can transform how we understand its significance for the original historical context for which it was created. Following an introductory theoretical chapter that explains the book's unconventional approach to the archive, Romantic Capabilities analyzes significant popular "media behaviors" exhibited by three major Romantic British literary corpuses: the viral circulation of William Blake's pictures and proverbs across contemporary media, the gravitation of Victorian panorama painters and 3D photographers to Walter Scott's historical fictions, and the ongoing popular practice of writing fanfiction set in the worlds of Jane Austen's novels and their imaginary country estates. The result is a book that reveals Blake to be an important early theorist of viral media and the law, Scott's novels to be studies in ...

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Auteure: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

Nombre de pages: 320

"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the happy ending they crave, but leaves its price tag attached"--

A Katherine Reay Collection

Auteure: Katherine Reay

Nombre de pages: 802

Now available in one volume—three novels by Katherine Reay! Dear Mr. Knightley, Lizzy & Jane, The Brontë Plot Dear Mr. Knightley Samantha Moore has always hidden behind the words of others—namely, her favorite characters in literature. Now, she will learn to write her own story—by giving that story to a complete stranger. Lizzy & Jane Elizabeth left her family’s home in Seattle fifteen years ago to pursue her lifelong dream—chefing her own restaurant in New York City. Jane stayed behind to raise a family. Estranged since their mother’s death many years ago, the circumstances of their lives are about to bring them together once again. The Brontë Plot When a rare-books dealer goes to England, she discovers more than just the famous writing haunts—she discovers how to love and be loved in today’s modern world. “Katherine Reay’s Dear Mr. Knightley kept me up until 2:00 a.m.; I simply couldn’t put it down.” —Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author of Once Upon a Tower

Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives

Auteure: Annika Bautz , Sarah Wootton

Nombre de pages: 212

This collection is concerned with the changing approaches to Jane Austen, her writings, and her afterlives, over the past two hundred years. It reflects on, and broadens understanding of, the cultural reach and reimaginings of Austen in view of the bicentennial celebrations of her published novels from 2011 to 2018. The ten contributors to this collection re-engage with key debates over Austen, her continuing appeal and significance as an author and a lucrative brand, and her cultural ubiquity. These essays are concerned with Austen’s national and international reputation; her critical reception; creative appropriations of her writings; and Austen’s afterlives in popular culture, in visual media, in ephemeral publications, in stage, in film, and in musical versions. Together, these essays by experts from across the UK, North America, Australia, and Scandinavia advance innovative readings of Austen’s novels and her transmedia legacies and shed new light on some of the complex reception processes that emerge from the study of this enduringly popular author. They also set out possible paths for scholarship on Austen in coming years. This book was originally published as a...

Dear Mr. Knightley

Auteure: Katherine Reay

Nombre de pages: 337

Samantha's only friends were characters in books, but her real life takes an extraordinary turn when a mysterious "Mr. Knightley" offers her a full journalism scholarship—on the condition that she write to him regularly. Will their long-distance friendship unlock her heart? Sam is, to say the least, bookish. An English major of the highest order, her diet has always been Austen, Dickens, and Shakespeare. The problem is that both her prose and conversation tend to be more Elizabeth Bennet than Samantha Moore. But life for the twenty-three-year-old orphan is about to get stranger than fiction. An anonymous, Dickensian benefactor calling himself Mr. Knightley offers to put Sam through Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism. There is only one catch: Sam must write frequent letters to the mysterious donor, detailing her progress. Sam’s letters to Mr. Knightley become increasingly confessional as she begins to share everything from her painful childhood memories to her growing feelings for eligible novelist Alex Powell. While Alex draws Sam into a world of warmth and literature that feels like it’s straight out of a book, old secrets are drawn to...

30 Great Myths about Jane Austen

Auteure: Claudia L. Johnson , Clara Tuite

Nombre de pages: 224

A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen. Was Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is Austen's writing easy to understand? Well into the 21st century, Jane Austen continues to be one of the most compelling novelists in all English literature. Many of her ideas about class, family, history, intimacy, manners, love, desire, and society, have inspired "myths" that are often contradictory — she was a Tory who was also a liberal feminist, or, her novels are at once sharply satirical and unapologetically romantic. Myths, like Austen's works, are dynamic, changing over time and impacting how we read and interpret literature. 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen examines the accepted beliefs — both true and untrue —that have most influenced our readings of Austen. Rather than simply de-bunking, or validating, commonly-held views about Austen, authors Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite explore how these myths can be used to engage with the life, work, and reception of Jane Austen. Applying the most up-to-date scholarship to ...

How She Died, How I Lived

Auteure: Mary Crockett

Nombre de pages: 325

Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a fellow classmate is brutally murdered. I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie--beautiful, saintly Jamie--was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed. On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are coping in various ways. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead. Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie's boyfriend--knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots. Is hope possible in the face of such violence? Is forgiveness? How do you go on living when you know it could have been you instead?

I Heart Jennifer Coolidge

Auteure: Lauren Emily Whalen

Nombre de pages: 187

An adoring, celebratory tribute to the one, the only, Jennifer Coolidge, that all-at-once captures her unique personality, engaging life story, smart and sassy life lessons, and special brand of humor that's quickly made JC one of America's most beloved stars and pop culture icons. Whether we remember Jennifer Coolidge as the hilariously ditzy manicurist Paulette Bonafonté in Legally Blonde, as the seductress Stifler’s Mom from American Pie, or as the totally unaware and fragile basket case Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus, these scene-stealing performances have shown her many dimensions as a comic actor and her craft is palpable—Jennifer has finally reached the pop culture stardom she so rightly deserves. To say the comedy legend is having a comeback would be an understatement. Jennifer has been well known to her fans for decades since her performances in American Pie, Legally Blonde, and numerous appearances in Christopher Guest mockumentaries (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), but it was her recent roles in The White Lotus and The Watcher that made people stand up and take notice of this hilarious actor and all-around amazing talent. Her fearless and entertaining characters...

The Ulysses Delusion

Auteure: Cecilia Konchar Farr

Nombre de pages: 210

Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions – they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently.

Growing Up a Woman

Auteure: Milena Kaličanin , Soňa Šnircová

Nombre de pages: 380

This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth – and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contribution of feminist criticism to the definition of the genre and the role of feminist cultural processes in its thematic developments, this volume investigates more recent influences on the female Bildung narrative and the influence of the classic female Bildungsroman on contemporary cultural texts. As a collection of fifteen essays written by international scholars, the book offers a representative sample of the narratives of female development, presenting a variety of genres, including the novel, the short story, autobiography, TV series, and Internet video blogs, and theoretical...

The Actor and the Housewife

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 353

Becky is seven months pregnant with her fourth child when she meets her dream actor Felix Callahan by chance. Twelve hours, one elevator ride, and one alcohol-free dinner later something has happened, though nothing has happened... it isn't sexual. It isn't even quite love. But soon Felix shows up in the Utah 'burbs to visit and before they know what's hit them, Felix and Becky are best friends. Really. Becky's husband is pretty cool about it. Her children roll their eyes. Her best (girl)friend can't get her head around it. But Felix (think Colin Firth) and Becky have something special... something unusual, something completely impossible to sustain. Or is it? Shannon Hale's latest novel is at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, completely real, and utterly surreal too. One of those magical stories that explores all the permutations of what happens when your not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life, and changes everything...

Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance

Auteure: Nora Nachumi , Stephanie Oppenheim

Nombre de pages: 273

The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" From the moment Colin Firth stripped down to his breeches and shirt in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, screen adaptations inspired by Austen's novels have banked on their ability to depict sexual tension and romantic desire. Meanwhile, the success of spin-offs, sequels, and elaborations confirms that Austen's novels have become a potent aphrodisiac for everyday readers. Clearly, the fourteen million viewers who watched Firth's unveiling were onto something: Austen's novels turn people on.Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond brings together a range of voices-from literary scholars to video game designers-to explore how different types of readers experience the realm of desire and the erotic in all things Austen. In this timely collection, writers, critics, journalists, and authors of internet content weigh in on sex and romance in Austen's works and in the...

The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen

Auteure: Janet Todd

Nombre de pages: 191

The second edition of an innovative introduction explaining what students need to know about Austen's novels, life, context and reception.

Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques

Auteure: Massimiliano Morini

Nombre de pages: 186

Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen's narrative techniques. Massimiliano Morini employs the tools developed by post-war linguistics and above all pragmatics, the study of the ways in which speakers communicate meaning, since Austen's 'wordings' can only be interpreted within the fictional context of character-character, narrator-character, narrator-reader interaction. Examining a wide range of Austen texts, from her unpublished works through masterpieces like Mansfield Park and Emma, Morini discusses familiar Austen themes, using linguistic means to shed fresh light on the question of point of view in Austen and on Austen's much-admired brilliance in creating lively and plausible dialogue. Accessibly written and informed by the latest work in linguistic and literary studies, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques offers Austen specialists a new avenue for understanding her narrative techniques and serves as a case study for scholars and students of pragmatics and applied linguistics.

RM Romance Magazine 10

Auteure: Franco Forte

Nombre de pages: 84

SIMPLY ROMANCE: Tutte le novità da oltreoceano REPORTAGE: Woman’s Fiction Festival di Matera LE NOSTRE INIZIATIVE: La nuova antologia 365 racconti TENDENZE EDITORIALI: Vampiri vs licantropi POESIA D’AMORE 8: Se l’amore ha mille facce TENDENZE EDITORIALI: Quando il romance scotta... ROMANZI IN PILLOLE: 30 PROTAGONISTE Paola Calvetti IN TUTTE LE SALSE: Profumo da amare L’INCHIESTA: Romance? Sì, no, forse... EDITORIA: Intervista a Federica Magro LE NOSTRE INIZIATIVE: 365 racconti sulla fine del mondo IN NOME DELLA LETTRICE: 50 TENDENZE Amore al maschile FESTIVAL LETTERARI: Grado Giallo 2012 L’INTERVISTA: Paola Perego L’APPROFONDIMENTO: Romance e bon ton LETTI CON AMORE: Ladra di cioccolato RUBRICA: Una giornata particolare I TEST DELLA RM: Donne e fornelli IL BELLO DELLE DONNE: Lettere alla Romance Magazine Narrativa: Pasticcini per cena di Elena Taroni Dardi Come lucciole nelle sere d’estate di Massimo Soumaré Un incontro di Maria Masella Qualcosa di bonus di Irene Vanni L’ultimo sole di Paola Picasso

Re-drawing Austen

Auteure: Beatrice Battaglia , Diego Saglia

Nombre de pages: 477

Emma ou les aventures d'une jeune frivole

Auteure: Alexander Mccall Smith

Nombre de pages: 376

Fraîchement diplômée de l’université, persuadée que, désormais, elle sait tout de la vie, la jeune Emma Woodhouse revient habiter dans la maison familiale, à la campagne. Riche et un peu snob, Emma s’entoure d’une cour d’amis qu’elle mène à la baguette. Elle organise des dîners, joue les entremetteuses et donne des leçons à tout le monde. Emma manipule les uns et les autres... au risque que ses petites manœuvres se retournent contre elle. Et pour quelqu’un qui croit tout savoir, Emma connaît bien mal son propre cœur. Une personne va en effet ébranler la confiance indestructible de la jeune femme : son ami et voisin, l’impénétrable George... Alexander McCall Smith revisite délicieusement le classique de Jane Austen.

Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

Auteure: S. Cobb

Nombre de pages: 136

A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker.

Diana - Princesse des Amazones

Nombre de pages: 136

Noël et Préjugés

Auteure: Marie Vareille , Adèle Bréau , Tonie Béhar , Sophie Rouvier , Isabelle Alexis , Marianne Levy

Nombre de pages: 140

Noël, cette fête qu’on adore détester ou qu’on déteste adorer ! Réunion familiale ou tête-à-tête ratés, de Paris à New-York en passant par l’Italie, on peut y vivre des crush ou des clash, qu’importe ! Et si la figure tutélaire de Jane Austen vient y apporter sa petite touche de magie pour faire basculer les situations les plus inextricables, l'esprit de Noël promet d'être au rendez-vous ! Marie Vareille, Isabelle Alexis, Tonie Behar, Adèle Bréau, Sophie Henrionnet et Marianne Levy forment la #TeamRomCom, un collectif d'auteures de comédies romantiques à la française. À elles six, elles comptabilisent 24 romans, 14 éditeurs, 8 blogs, 1 site féminin, 15 cocktails préférés, un nombre inavouable de héros irrésistibles et 68 scènes de sexe et demie. Elles nous livrent ici leur interprétation décalée de la comédie romantique de Noël. Le premier tome s'est déjà vendu à 40 000 ex. Elles vivent toutes à Paris, sauf Sophie Henrionnet qui connaît maintenant parfaitement le trajet Angers-Paris ! Suivez l'actualité de la #TeamRomCom sur www.comedieromantique.com

Confessions d'une fan de Jane Austen

Auteure: Laurie Viera Rigler , Marie Dubourg , Madeleine Martin

Nombre de pages: 253

Le best-seller du Los Angeles Times qui captive tous les amoureux d'Austen. Je n'aurais jamais dû noyer mon chagrin dans une énième relecture d'Orgueil et Préjugés et dans l'alcool, car aujourd'hui, me voilà propulsée à l'époque de la Régence anglaise dans le corps d'une autre femme ! Même si la mode Empire et les moeurs ne cessent de me surprendre, je m'aperçois que cette vie offre, malgré tout, son lot de charmes. Surtout lorsque je rencontre l'élégant et séduisant Charles Edgeworth. Mais est-il un Darcy ou un Wickham ? S'il se révèle être un Darcy, je pourrais bien ne plus jamais éprouver l'envie de rentrer chez moi, après tout... « Qui n'a jamais rêvé de plonger au coeur de son roman préféré ? Une délicieuse aventure remplie d'humour. Jane Austen y fait même une brève apparition : du plaisir à l'état pur ! » The Times-Picayune

Le livre des légendes

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 315

Ever After High est un pensionnat pour les fils et les filles des personnages de contes de fée. Là bas ils apprennent à accomplir leur destinée. Le premier tome s'attarde sur la fille de Blanche Neige et la fille de la Méchante Reine qui sont meilleures amies jusqu'à ce qu'elles doivent choisir entre leur amitié et leur destin.

Princess Academy

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 338

A Newbery Honor Winner A New York Times Bestseller In this first book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri finds herself a sudden participant in a contest to find the next princess of the realm. Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince will choose his bride from among the village girls. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess. Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. Winning the contest could give her everything she ever wanted--but it would mean leaving her home and family behind. Don't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: The Princess Academy trilogy Princess Academy Princess Academy: Palace of Stone Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters The Books of Bayern The Goose Girl Enna Burning River Secrets Forest Born Book...

Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Auteure: Emily C. Friedman

Nombre de pages: 209

Scent is both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material culture. Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory, yet to remember a smell without external stimuli is almost impossible for most people. Moreover, human beings’ (specifically Western humans) ability to smell has been diminished through a process of increased emphasis on odor-removal, hygienic practices that emphasize de-odorization (rather than the covering of one odor by another).While other intangibles of the human experience have been placed into the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has so far remained largely sidelined in favor of discussions of the visual, the aural, touch, and taste. The past decade has seen a great expansion of our understanding of how smell works physiologically, psychologically, and culturally, and there is no better moment than now to attempt to recover the traces of olfactory perceptions, descriptions, and assumptions. Reading Smell provides models for how to incorporate olfactory knowledge into new readings of the literary form central to our understanding of the eighteenth century and modernity in general: the novel. The multiplication and...

Rapunzel's Revenge

Auteure: Shannon Hale , Dean Hale

Nombre de pages: 145

This stunning, hilarious, and action-packed graphic novel co-written by New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor winning author Shannon Hale re-imagines Rapunzel's story . . . in the wild west! Rapunzel escapes her tower-prison all on her own, only to discover a world beyond what she'd ever known before. Determined to rescue her real mother and to seek revenge on her kidnapper would-be mother, Rapunzel and her very long braids team up with Jack (of Giant killing fame) and together they preform daring deeds and rescues all over the western landscape, eventually winning the justice they so well deserve. Don't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: Graphic Novels with Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale Rapunzel's Revenge Calamity Jack The Books of Bayern The Goose Girl Enna Burning River Secrets Forest Born The Princess Academy trilogy Princess Academy Princess Academy: Palace of Stone Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters Book of a Thousand Days Dangerous For Adults Austenland Midnight in Austenland The Actor and the Housewife

Kind of a Big Deal

Auteure: Shannon Hale

Nombre de pages: 285

From Shannon Hale, bestselling author of Austenland, comes Kind of a Big Deal: a story that will suck you in—literally. “So many strange and wonderful things happen at every twist and turn, you'll be happy to wander with Josie . . . Each book she descends into seems to teach her something, and even if it's not obvious where the story is going, we're in it for the long haul.” —NPR There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal—she dropped out of high school to be a star! But the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Broadway dream: dead. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Best friend: distant. Boyfriend: busy. Mom: not playing with a full deck? Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly she's inside it. And with each book, she’s a different character: a post-apocalyptic heroine, the lead in a YA rom-com, a 17th century wench in a corset. It’s alarming. But also . . . kind of amazing? It’s the perfect way to live out her fantasies. Book after book, Josie the failed star finds a new way to shine. But the longer she stays in a ...

Upstairs and Downstairs

Auteure: James Leggott , Julie Anne Taddeo

Nombre de pages: 330

The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative nostalgia, these shows can also provide a lens to examine the class and gender politics of both the past and present. In Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo provide a collection of essays that analyze key developments in the history of period dramas from the late 1960s to the present day. Contributors explore such issues as how the genre fulfills and disrupts notions of “quality television,” the process of adaptation, the relationship between UK and U.S. television, and the connection between the period drama and wider developments in TV and popular culture. Additional essays examine how fans shape the content and reception of these dramas and how the genre has articulated or generated debates about gender, sexuality, and class. In addition to Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs,...

The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen

Auteure: K. Mirmohamadi

Nombre de pages: 215

This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena.