Austen’s Men, Immortality and Intertextuality

• Published in: Romanticism (Edinburgh) Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 152 - 164
• Main Author: Ailwood, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Edinburgh University Press 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Literary Studies; Jane Austen; men; intertextuality; Jane Porter; masculinity; Jane West; Hannah More; literary influence

Jane Austen’s men are central to her immortality and enduring appeal in the twenty-first century. This article links the intertextual imagining and re-imagining of Austen’s men with her own textual practice in the Romantic Era. Drawing on emerging methodologies for identifying and interpreting liter...