Table of Contents

Introduction: The Jane Austen Phenomenon: Remaking the Past at the Millennium Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson Part I. In the Classroom 1. How to Do Things with Austen James Thompson 2. Popular Culture and the Comedy of Manners: Clueless and Fashion Clues Maureen Turim 3. Love at the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristina Straub Part II. In the Nation 4. Clueless: About History Deidre Lynch 5. "It Can't Go on Like This": Dangerous Liaisons in the Reagan--Thatcher Years Sarah Maza 6. Placing Jane Austen, Displacing England: Touring between Book, History, and Nation Mike Crang Part III. At Home 7. The Return Home Suzanne R. Pucci 8. The Return to Repression: Filming the Nineteenth Century Virginia L. Blum 9. A Generational Gig with Jane Austen, Sigmund Freud, and Amy Heckerling: Fantasies of Sexuality, Gender, Fashion, and Disco in and beyond Clueless Denise Fulbrook Part IV. In the Bedroom 10. Sleeping with Mr. Collins Ruth Perry 11. Books to Movies: Gender and Desire in Jane Austen's Adaptations Martine Voiret 12. Gender and the Heritage Genre: Popular Feminism Turns to History Madeleine Dobie Appendix: Television, Film, and Radio Productions of Austen Contributors Index

About the Author

Suzanne R. Pucci is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky. James Thompson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

"This is an interesting, often witty, and absolutely informative book. What makes the revisiting of Austen a box office commercial phenomenon-witness Clueless and Bridget Jones's Diary-is our postmodern climate, what the editors call 'present cultural concerns.' We already live within a type of reality Austen has constructed, and our remodeling of that reality in the present at once displays varieties of clashes, lacunae, significations, parodies, and dilemmas." - Joseph Natoli, author of Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998