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"Returning author Devoney Looser has written a study of Jane Austen's legacy in high and popular culture, looking at stage and film adaptations of her work, how Austen has been taught in classrooms, Austen's depiction in visual culture, and Austen's role in the women's suffragist movement. Looser draws on popular print and unpublished archival sources, amassing evidence from high, middlebrow, and popular culture, in order to craft a more capacious history of posthumous reception. The book is a detailed and revealing account of what Looser calls the "public dimension" of Jane Austen, who is a "manufactured creation." Looser has dug deep and come up with brand-new material on Austen, something that is very hard to do. This is the kind of material that Janeites and Austen scholars live for"--.



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Devoney Looser

Hello! I'm Devoney Looser, Professor of English at Arizona State University. I also go by Stone Cold Jane Austen, especially when I'm on roller skates.

My new book, The Making of Jane Austen (makingjaneuasten.com) , is just out from Johns Hopkins University Press. I'm grateful to Publishers Weekly for naming it a Best Summer Book in Nonfiction. Check out the 3-minute book trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wrb3TMfqqf4&t=32s

I grew up in Minnesota, where postage-stamped sized backyards were turned into winter ice rinks using garden hoses, and cold weather brought opportunities to snuggle up and read. Now I live in the desert near a fantastic roller rink. I teach Jane Austen to college students and serve as the faculty adviser to ASU's roller derby team. (That's how I got my alter-ego derby nickname.) I met my husband--also an English professor and Austen scholar--over a conversation about Austen, and together we're raising tween sons who find Austen tolerable but un-tempting.

Learn more at www.devoney.com, on Twitter at @devoneylooser @Making_Jane and @StoneColdJane, and on Instagram at @MakingJaneAusten and @devoneylooser

P. S. I pronounce my name DEV-oh-knee LOH-zer. It was one of those names that made me learn to be tough on the grade school playground.



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