Seeking Austen, from Abroad: Lori Smith’s Memoir 'A Walk with Jane Austen' (2007)
Seeking Austen, from Abroad: Lori Smith’s Memoir 'A Walk with Jane Austen' (2007)
| dc.contributor.author | Wells, Juliette | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-13T17:42:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-05-13T17:42:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-05-13T17:42:52Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | One outcome of Jane Austen’s popularity with present-day readers is their creation of books derived from and inspired by her own. This article examines a recent contribution to this increasingly crowded field: Lori Smith’s 2007 'A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey into Adventure, Love & Faith', which depicts a thirtysomething American woman’s travel to England in the hopes of better understanding both Austen and herself. I consider this memoir in relation to other works created by Austen fans, including those who, like Smith, aim primarily at a Christian readership; I address as well this book’s significance as an account of literary pilgrimage and of personally transformative reading. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1836-4845 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/3412 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Jane Austen | en |
| dc.subject | Popularity | en |
| dc.subject | Life Writing | en |
| dc.subject | Lori Smith | en |
| dc.subject | 'A Walk with Jane Austen' | en |
| dc.subject | Christianity | en |
| dc.subject | Literary pilgrimages | en |
| dc.title | Seeking Austen, from Abroad: Lori Smith’s Memoir 'A Walk with Jane Austen' (2007) | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |