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Claire Harman, Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Critic and biographer Claire Harman's critical biography Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World traces the publishing hurdles that met much of Austen's work and the place that her novels have held in the cultural consciousness since their publication. At this March 2, 2010 event, Harman reads an excerpt from Jane's Fame and discusses the growth of the "Jane Austen phenomenon"--that is, the growing influence and visibility of her work and, in particular, the phrases therein--and how contemporary Austen references pop up everywhere from Barack Obama's presidential run to Zinedine Zidane's World Cup headbutt. She also speaks to Austen's unique popular and academic appeal, touches on cinematic adaptions of her work and delivers a brief history of Austen admirers, detractors and plagiarists (48 minutes).
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