Jane Austen

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth (December 16, 1775), we are highlighting key RCL academic titles on Austen's literary and cultural impact. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

Updated October 1, 2025
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The making of Jane Austen
Looser, Devoney
Paper Book
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...
A memoir of Jane Austen : and other family recollections
Austen-Leigh, James Edward
Paper Book
'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.'James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters,...
Reading Jane Austen
Davidson, Jenny
Paper Book
Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen's writing, novelist and academic Jenny Davidson looks at...
The Cambridge introduction to Jane Austen
Todd, Janet
Paper Book
Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This introduction by Janet Todd, leading scholar and editor of Austen's work, explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and...
Pride and prejudice : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This Norton Critical Edition also includes: ยท Biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the Fourth Edition, those by Jon Spence...
Jane Austen, game theorist
Chwe, Michael Suk-Young
Paper Book
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his...
Jane Austen : women, politics, and the novel
Johnson, Claudia L.
Paper Book
"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."--Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, examines the conventions of...
Sansei and sensibility
Yamashita, Karen Tei
Paper Book
In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance--familial, cultural, emotional, artistic--really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives'...
Jane Austen in Hollywood
Troost, Linda
Paper Book
In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazingly, all of them were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? What changes were made to enhance the novels' appeal to a wide...
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment
Knox-Shaw, Peter
Paper Book
Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the...

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