讲座预告〡Jane Austen: the Path to Global Fame

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本期主题

Jane Austen: the Path to Global Fame

Host: Associate Professor HAO Yunhui, BJTU

Discussant: Professor ZHANG Lei, CUPL

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主讲人简介

Joanne Wilkes was educated at Sydney and Oxford Universities, and is professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. 

Her publications on Austen include Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot (2010) plus essays in numerous other recent publications, including Jane Austen and Critical Theory (2021), Jane Austen and William Shakespeare (2019) and Jane Austen and Masculinity (2017). She is currently working on a monograph for Anthem: Unfinished Austen: Catharine, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. Her other research interests include the reception of Lord Byron’s life and work in France, the poetry of John Keats, and the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Anthony Trollope.

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讲座简介

By the early twentieth-century, Jane Austen’s novels were very famous, but were often received as gentle and unthreatening comedies. By the 1940s, however, they were receiving serious critical study, study that has never abated. This lecture looks at how Austen’s novels were appropriated by different critical schools of thought over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But it will also consider how she became a global phenomenon - by means of cheap editions, print media coverage, and various kinds of adaptation: modernisations, continuations, fan-fic, movies, TV series and vlogs. As the lecturer is an Australian based in New Zealand, she will also allude to some of the ways Austen and her novels were received in those countries, both former colonies of Britain.

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时  间：2020年11月18日 周四14:00-17:00

地  点：Zoom会议室

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图文〡王磬苗

编辑〡厉梦洁

责编〡李小晨