All the new publications
Alert AustenBlog Reader Laura sends word of several upcoming publications that we think will be of great interest to Janeites: Jane Austen, Or The Secret of Style by D.A. Miller; All Things Austen : An Encyclopedia of Austen’s World by Kirstin Olsen; and the “I Can’t Get Enough Of Jane Austen 2006 Calendar.” Thanks for the great links, Laura!
We also received a brochure from Cambridge University Press, which will be publishing new scholarly editions of the novels of Jane Austen in nine volumes over the next two or three years. According to the brochure, “The edition will offer authoritative texts of the published work and manuscripts along with textual and explanatory notes, and an introduction giving full details of the progress, early publishing history and reception of each work, together with discussion of its critical significance. An additional volume, Jane Austen in Context, will provide more detail on many aspects of the texts and their literary and social context.” There is not yet any information on the set at the Cambridge University Press Web site, but Amazon has listings for several of the volumes. Mansfield Park and Emma are listed with a release date of November 2005; Persuasion is listed with no publication date. Jane Austen in Context also has a November 2005 release date listed.
The catalog also lists an upcoming book by Deidre LeFaye, A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family, that sounds very interesting: “(LeFaye) has now collected all this material together to produce a unique chronology, containing some 10,000 entries. As a result, for the first time ever, those interested in Jane Austen can discover what we know about where Jane Austen was and the experiences she was having, at many precise moments of her life, and similarly what was happening to members of her family.” There is no listing for the book at Amazon as yet.
January 27th, 2005 at 11:14 am
Books in Print has the ‘Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family’ listed as “Publication Cancelled.” The original projected date of publication was February 2004. I don’t know if that really means cancelled, or just “delayed.”
January 27th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Hmm. The brochure just said “2005.” It cost around $100, incidentally, so I don’t see it having a big audience. All of their hardback books are very expensive, typical academic press prices, but many are available in paperback for a reasonable cost. I kind of hope they do that with this book, if it ever comes out!
January 27th, 2005 at 12:02 pm
I got like six copies of that flier - one sent me by the JA Society, five given to me by friends who knew of my interest!
I ordered the new nine-volume CUP edition for my library - we need new copies of the novels anyway, and I’m sure the scholarly apparatus and added material will be useful (some of it, in inducing sleep.)