{"product_id":"wild-for-austen","title":"Wild for Austen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishing for Jane\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAusten’s 250th birthday, this unmissable book offers an incisive and entertaining look at her life, writing, and legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Tracing the author’s life and legacy across 250 years, she reveals an Austen far wilder than the one we know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Looser takes a deep dive into Austen’s work, offering fresh insights into her six completed novels, as well as her juvenilia, unfinished fiction, essays, and poetry. She also reveals new information about Austen’s relationship to the abolitionist movement and women’s suffrage. Examining the author’s legacy, she turns up extraordinary stories about ghost-sightings, Austen novels used as evidence in court, and the eclectic members of the Austen family, whose own outrageous lives are wilder than fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written with warmth and humour, and filled with remarkable details never before published, \u003ci\u003eWild for Austen\u003c\/i\u003e is the ultimate tribute to one of the world’s most beloved novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54657096450392,"sku":"9781526193704","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781526193704_b715cff7-d3c7-47dd-9e77-b7221b87a6a1.jpg?v=1765707339","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/wild-for-austen","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}