{"product_id":"reading-with-jane-austen-9781684485857","title":"Reading with Jane Austen","description":"\u003cp\u003eJane Austen has more readers today than at any time in history. Many of Austen's legions of fans, however, came to her novels after first seeing films or other adaptations made for twenty-first-century audiences. Austen herself conversely spent her literary career undermining romantic clichés and rethinking novel conventions. Confident that she and her contemporaries shared a common reading culture, Austen deliberately constructed her novels to set readerly expectations, only to disrupt or confound those expectations by challenging her readers' assumptions and values. In \u003ci\u003eReading with Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e, Elaine Bander carefully rereads the great author's novels--beginning with her late work of juvenilia, \"Catharine, or The Bower,\" and ending with her final fragment, \"Sanditon\"--against the rich context of late Georgian literary and intellectual culture. In doing so, Bander invites us into the transformative experience that Austen intentionally designed for her earliest readers, adding new layers of appreciation for those who love her work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELAINE BANDER\u003c\/b\u003e is retired from Dawson College in Montreal, Canada, where she taught English for three decades. She is the author of dozens of essays and several book chapters on Austen and other writers and served as president of the Jane Austen Society of North America (Canada) as well as of the Burney Society (North America).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078097203474,"sku":"9781684485857","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ffdb0b7d-4f90-4c84-811e-91fbba0a23c6.jpg?v=1775633030","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-with-jane-austen-9781684485857","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}