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Why Jane? Why now?(notebook)(popularity of Jane Austen's works)(Brief article)

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From: World Literature Today
Date: 20080101
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Since the 1940s, full-length film productions of Jane Austen's novels have been turned out at a steady rate of three to seven per decade. Today, Austen "mania" is everywhere, from two new Hollywood features inspired by her life and work, Jane's image featured on the cover of Newsweek, to MySpace and YouTube. Her novels and books about her novels crowd the best-seller lists. Nearly two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen still has enormous appeal for contemporary readers and viewers. What accounts for the continuing popularity of Jane Austen? Why ...

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