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  • Wild for Austen

    A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

    by Devoney Looser ...
    **USA Today Bestseller!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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sister Novelists

    The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

    by Devoney Looser ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Daily Jane Austen

    A Year of Quotes

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series A Year of Quotes
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known, from Northanger Abbey on its lovable, naive heroine—"if adventures will not befal a young lady ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period

    Edited by Devoney Looser ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Sense and Sensibility

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Making of Jane Austen

    by Devoney Looser ...
    An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name.Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know.Here are the Austen ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Making of Jane Austen

    by Devoney Looser ...
    An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name.Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know.Here are the Austen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

    by Devoney Looser ...
    This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century.Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820

    by Devoney Looser ...
    Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleUntil recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

    by M-C. Newbould, Devoney Looser, Helen Williams, Jack Orchard, Adam James Smith, Gabriella Hartvig, Jakub Lipski, John Regan, Paul Goring, Malcolm Jack, Rui Romao, Béatrice Guion, Edmundo Balsemão Pires, Mauro Simonazzi ...
    Series Book 28 - 1650-1850
    Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wild for Austen

    A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

    by Devoney Looser ...
    Narrated by Marisa Calin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 6 min

    Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser."[Narrator] Marisa Calin's pleasant British accent is perfect for this exploration of Regency-era social codes and wild-hearted women." — AudioFileThieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Sister Novelists

    The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

    by Devoney Looser ...
    Narrated by Larissa Thompson ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 11 min

    Bloomsbury presents Sister Novelists by Devoney Looser, read by Larissa Thompson.Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen’s heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook