Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Looser, Devoney
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Looser, Devoney

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent...
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Author: Devoney Looser
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Looser, Devoney

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

$45.71
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Looser, Devoney

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

$45.71
Author: Devoney Looser
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.

Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in Wild for Austen. These, and many other events and characters, come to life throughout this rollicking book. Austen, we learn, was far wilder in her time than we've given her credit for, and Looser traces the fascinating and fantastical journey her legacy has taken over the past 250 years.

All six of Austen's completed novels are examined here, and Looser uncovers striking new gems therein, as well as in Austen's juvenilia, unfinished fiction, and even essays and poetry. Looser also takes on entirely new scholarship, writing about Austen's relationship to the abolitionist movement and women's suffrage. In examining the legacy of Austen's works, Looser reveals the film adaptations that might have changed Hollywood history had they come to fruition, and tells extraordinary stories of ghost-sightings, Austen novels cited in courts of law, and the eclectic members of the Austen extended family whose own outrageous lives seem wilder than fiction.

Written with warmth, humor, and remarkable details never before published, Wild for Austen is the ultimate tribute to Jane Austen.

Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.44w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781250361332


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2025
Library Journal 06/01/2025 pg. 93
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025
BookPage 09/01/2025

About the Author
Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, is the author of Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës and The Making of Jane Austen. A Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar, Looser has written for The Atlantic, New York Times, Salon, Slate, and The Washington Post. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America and played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen.
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