Book Reviews from JASNA News
Each issue of JASNA News includes reviews of books about Jane Austen, her writing, and her era. Publishers and authors who wish to submit a book for review are requested to contact the Book Review Editor, Sue Parrill, sparrill@bellsouth.net, and provide a copy of each book.
The text of all book reviews on this site can be searched online.
Spring 2008 Book Reviews:
- A Revolution Almost beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s Persuasion
- Emma Adapted—Jane Austen’s Heroine from Book to Film
- The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade
- Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man
- Literary Genius: 35 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature
Winter 2007 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or, Love, Death, and the SATs
- Jane Austen: A Students’ Guide to the Later Manuscript Works
- Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: ‘a fling at the slave trade’
- Jane Austen for Dummies
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, a novel
Summer 2007 Book Reviews:
- Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen
- Fugitive Pieces: Trifles Light as Air: The Poems of James Edward Austen-Leigh
- Jane and His Lordship’s Legacy, Suspense and Sensibility (Or, First Impressions Revisited), North by Northanger (Or, The Shades of Pemberley)
- Juvenilia The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
- James Stanier Clarke
Spring 2007 Book Reviews:
- A Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family
- Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood
- Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction
- Jane Austen’s Juvenilia: Jack & Alice, Lady Susan, The Three Sisters
Winter 2006 Book Reviews:
- Cambridge Edition of Mansfield Park
- Jane Austen in Context
- Life in the Country: With Quotations by Jane Austen and Silhouettes by her Nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh
- Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style
Summer 2006 Book Reviews:
- Cambridge Edition of Emma
- Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House
- The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf
- Austen Juvenilia: Frederic and Elfrida, The History of England, Catharine or The Bower
- Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues
Spring 2006 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen and the Enlightenment
- Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
- Jane Austen in the Classroom: Viewing the Novel/Reading the Film
- Jane Austen in Boca
- All Things Austen: An Encyclopedia of Austen’s World
Winter 2005 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
- Jane Austen’s Brother Abroad: The Grand Tour Journals of Edward Austen
- Searching for Jane Austen
- Sex and Sensibility, Dating Mr. Darcy
- Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece
Summer 2005 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen: A Family Record, 2nd edition
- Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma
- Jane Austen and Crime
- A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen
Spring 2005 Book Reviews:
- Tea with Jane Austen
- Jane Austen on Screen
- Annotated Pride and Prejudice
- The Complete Poems of James Austen, Jane Austen’s Eldest Brother
- Emma; or, The Unfortunate Attachment: A Sentimental Novel
Winter 2004 Book Reviews:
- Effusions of Fancy
- The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature From Austen to Woolf
- Gothic Editions, The Monk and Northanger Abbey
- In the Steps of Jane Austen: Walking Tours of Austen’s England
- The Talk in Jane Austen
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Summer 2004 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen, or, The Secret of Style
- Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels
- The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith
- Jane Austen and the Theatre
- The Jane Austen Book Club
Spring 2004 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture
- Jane Austen’s Regency World
- The Historical Austen
- “All This Reading”: The Literary World of Barbara Pym
- I’ll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald
Winter 2003 Book Reviews:
- Becoming Jane Austen
- The Reform’d Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish’d Rake
- Jane Austen Fashion: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen
- Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen
- Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen
Summer 2003 Book Reviews:
- Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen
- Jane Austen’s “Outlandish Cousin”: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide
- In A Fast Coach With A Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson
- Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England
- Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations
Spring 2003 Book Reviews:
- Romantic Austen
- Where’s Where in Jane Austen...and What Happens There
- Jane Austen and Names
- Jane Austen and the Theatre
- Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman
- Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel
- Jane Austen’s Literary Manuscripts: A Study of the Novelist’s Development through the Surviving Papers
Winter 2002 Book Reviews:
- Soldier of the Raj: The Life of Richard Purvis, 1789-1868, Soldier, Sailor, and Parson
- A Year with Jane Austen, A Calendar for 2002
- Pride and Prejudice and The Recess
- Jane Austen: Antipodean Views
Summer 2002 Book Reviews:
- Sense and Sensibility - two new editions
- The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
- The Tailor’s Masterpiece and Hints on Etiquette
- The Injur’d Husband and Lasselia
Spring 2002 Book Reviews:
- I, Jane Austen
- Jane Austen in Hollywood and Recreating Jane Austen
- Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen’s Fiction and A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family, 1705 - 1806
- Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Fiction
Winter 2001 Book Reviews:
- Student Companion to Jane Austen
- Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century “Women’s Fiction” and Social Engagement
- General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study in Dialogism
- Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1839: Stress Points in English Augustan Tradition and The Poetics of Novels: Fiction and its Execution
Summer 2001 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality
- Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art
- Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen
- British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
- Jane Austen
- Jane Austen and the Navy
- Jane and Her Gentlemen
- Invitation to the Party
Winter 2000 Book Reviews:
- Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees
- Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
- The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense & Sensibility
- Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities
- Jane Austen: A Celebration
- Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
Summer 2000 Book Reviews:
- Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen
- Critical Essays on Jane Austen
- By A Lady: Jane Austen’s Female Archetypes in Fiction and Film
Spring 2000 Book Reviews:
- Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time
- Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character
- Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen
- A Closer Walk With God: Christian Insights from the Novels of Jane Austen
- The Jane Austen Quiz Book
Winter 1999 Book Reviews:
- The Author’s Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel
- Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion
- Jane Austen, a volume in The British Library Writers’ Lives series
- The Politics of Jane Austen
- A Transcription and Analysis of Jane Austen’s Last Work, Sanditon
- The Regency Underworld and An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England
Summer 1999 Book Reviews:
- Almost Another Sister: Fanny Knight, Jane Austen’s Favourite Niece
- Jane Austen in Hollywood
- Austen for All Ages (four books from the Juvenilia and a Collection of Letters)
- Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists
- The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England
- A Jane Austen Encyclopedia
Spring 1999 Book Reviews:
- The Hearth of the Matter (three books on women’s roles in Austen’s time)
- Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility
- Cambridge University Press’s edition of Pride and Prejudice
- The Making of Jane Austen’s Emma and Jane Austen’s Emma on Television
- Titles and Forms of Address
Winter 1998 Book Reviews:
- How to Study an Austen Novel and Understanding Pride and Prejudice
- Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers
- Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections
- The British Housewife: or, the Cook, Housekeeper’s and Gardener’s Companion
- British Women Writers, 1700-1850: An Annotated Bibliography of Their Works and Works About Them