Editors: Kerry Sinanan , University of Texas at San Antonio and Mariam Wassif, Carnegie Mellon University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For review with SUNY Press, Long Nineteenth Century Series <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jane Austen and the Making of Regency Whiteness <\/em>unsettles Austen criticism to re-examine her novels\u2019 centrality to forging whiteness in the eighteenth century. This \u201cwhiteness project\u201d (Gerald Horne) is reproduced by Austen cultures, afterlives, and adaptations, with global ramifications. This volume gathers essays from scholars working at the intersections of Critical Race and Black Studies, Indigenous methodologies, and Postcolonial theory, to argue that Austen\u2019s novels are fundamentally about making white, Anglo subjects of empire who are located in a specific historical period. The Regency whiteness produced in the novels continues to have a huge impact and desirability as Austen is exported, reproduced, and consumed globally. The volume will show that it is specifically the making of Regency white people that has granted Austen her global, iconic status today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Edward Said and more recent postcolonial critics have long argued that Austen and empire are interwoven, what has not yet been fully discussed is the powerful race-making work that Austen\u2019s novels perform and the global significance of this work in forging white subjectivity as universal. Austen\u2019s cultural force is part of the assimilationist, universalizing territorial and cultural conquest of the British empire, promulgating a myth of \u201coriginality\u201d that enables a sweeping universal signifying of Regency whiteness as a desired norm. Jane Austen and the Making of Regency Whiteness <\/em>understands Austen as Shakespeare\u2019s heir in this making of the white, Anglo subject who comes to stand in for the universal human (see White People in Shakespeare <\/em>ed. Arthur Little). In Mansfield Park <\/em>(1816) Henry Crawford declares, \u201cShakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of an Englishman\u2019s constitution.\u201d Austen draws frequently on the works of Shakespeare and Milton to create a cultural-moral center at the heart of her works: reading shapes her heroines\u2019 inner virtue and social sensibilities, as well as those of her male characters. It forges them as white \u201cEnglish\u201d people. This volume focuses on how culturally and historically contextualized whiteness in the novels has been mobilized, transhistorically and transgeographically, to signify on a global scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Austen\u2019s novels produce norms of romance, satire, and comedy which are codified and disseminated as universal, when in fact these modes, and the morals they espouse, understood to be central to \u201cliterature,\u201d are coterminous with British imperial expansion and settler colonialism. While some adaptations and fandom practices contest this whiteness, many of them reproduce it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We invite a broad range of contributors from both inside and outside of the academy to ensure that the collection has relevance for instructors, scholars, students, fans of Austen, social media enthusiasts, and those in the heritage and adaptation industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This project has been invited for review by SUNY Press for the Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century series. Please send abstracts of 500 words <\/strong>by 1 April <\/strong>to kerry.sinanan@utsa.ed and mwassif@andrew.cmu.edu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Topics may include: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Milton and Whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Shakespeare and Whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Muslin and Cotton <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hindutva and Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Men of Empire and Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Challenging whiteness in Austen in inclusive fandoms and adaptations <\/p>\n\n\n\n White women, Romance and Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Embroidery and white femininity <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chastity and white femininity <\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s wit and whiteness <\/p>\n\n\n\n Landed property as whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Classical Culture and whiteness <\/p>\n\n\n\n Geographies of Whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Austen at the Borderlands <\/p>\n\n\n\n Money, empire, and whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Protestantism, Austen and Empire <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fashion, whiteness and Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Art, materiality and the making of Regency whiteness <\/p>\n\n\n\n Slavery and racial capital in making Regency whiteness <\/p>\n\n\n\n The music of Regency whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n National Trust and Heritage cultures of whiteness <\/p>\n\n\n\n Austen and the Landed gentry <\/p>\n\n\n\n Class and Whiteness in Austen <\/p>\n\n\n\n Racism and Whiteness in Austen Fandoms <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editors: Kerry Sinanan , University of Texas at San Antonio and Mariam Wassif, Carnegie Mellon University.\u00a0\u00a0 For review with SUNY Press, Long Nineteenth Century Series Jane Austen and the Making… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}