Jane Austen, sex, and romance : engaging with desire in the novels and beyond /
Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" From the moment Colin Firth stripped down to his breeches and shirt in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, screen adaptations inspired by Austen's novels have banked on their ability to depict...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Austen's teasing : or, what the wit wants / Mary Ann O'Farrell
- Performing (dis)comfort : queer possibilities in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Jade Higa
- Taking hands : the fisting phantasmic in Sense and sensibility / Christien Garcia
- Always wanting more : desire and Austen fan fiction / Marilyn Francus
- Unconquerable attraction : Darcy and Elizabeth's falling in love in Austenesque novels / Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli
- What's hidden in Highbury? / Stephanie Oppenheim
- Passion and pastiche / Diana Birchall
- In search of Colin Firth's bum / Nora Nachumi
- Jane again / Rachel Brownstein
- Touching scenes : Austen, intimacy and staging lovers' vows / Elaine McGirr
- Jane's players : sex and romance in the virtual world of Jane Austen / Judy Tyrer
- To YouTube from Gretna Green : updating Lydia Bennet for the digital age / Margaret Dunlap
- Porn Austen / Devoney Looser
- The Shadow Jane / Laura Engel
- In bed with Mr. Knightley : how Austen and her readers understand sexual compatibility / Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman
- Afterword: Sex, romance, and representation in Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at last / Juliette Wells.
