Women’s Rewritings

  • Marina Cano
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Abstract

This chapter re-examines one of the most productive periods in the history of Austen’s popular culture: the 1990s. It reads print sequels and continuations of Austen alongside the screen phenomenon; for instance, Joan Aiken’s and Emma Tennant’s sequels of Sense and Sensibility are compared with the Emma Thompson/Ang Lee award-winning film adaptation. Setting the print afterlives in the context of feminist rewritings of the canon (1980s–1990s), I explore representations of womanhood, communities of women and disabled women’s bodies in the Austen sequels of the turn of the century.

Keywords

Female Character Source Text Woman Writer Film Adaptation Feminist Revisionism 
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  • Marina Cano
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  1. 1.University of LimerickLimerickIreland

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