Jane Austen in popular culture

Jane Austen's "power" in Hollywood cinema parodied in Entertainment Weekly.

The author Jane Austen, as well as her works, have been represented in popular culture in a variety of forms.

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose social commentary and masterly use of both free indirect speech and irony eventually made her one of the most influential and honoured novelists in English literature. In popular culture, Austen's novels and her personal life have been adapted into film, television, and theatre, with adaptations varying greatly in their faithfulness to the original.

Books and scripts that use the general storyline of Austen's novels but change or otherwise modernise the story also became popular at the end of the 20th century. For example, Clueless (1995), Amy Heckerling's updated version of Emma, which takes place in Beverly Hills, became a cultural phenomenon and spawned its own television series.[1]

As a character

Film and television

In 2007, Anne Hathaway starred as Austen in Becoming Jane.[2] Based on the biography Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Hunter Spence,[3] the film centred on Jane Austen's early life, her development as an author, and the posited romantic relationship with Thomas Langlois Lefroy (James McAvoy).[2]

Miss Austen Regrets, a television film starring Olivia Williams as Jane Austen, was released in the same year. Based on Austen's surviving letters, the semi-biographical television movie focused on the last few years of Jane Austen's life as she looked back on her life and loves and helped her favourite niece, Fanny Knight (Imogen Poots), find a husband.

Theatre

JANE, the musical debuted in June 2006 in the West Midlands, England. It is a West-End style musical theatre production based on the life of Jane Austen. The musical, directed by Geetika Lizardi, focuses on Austen as a modern heroine, a woman who chose art and integrity over the security of a loveless marriage.

Literature

Jane Austen features as an amateur sleuth in Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen series of historical mystery novels.

Kate Beaton, cartoonist of webcomic Hark! A Vagrant, devoted one of her comic strips to Jane Austen.[4]

Video Games

Jane Austen (voiced by Eden Riegel) is revealed as the narrator of 2013's Saints Row IV in a bonus cutscene, and the game's antagonist Zinyak reads the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice on an in-game radio station. Both the protagonist (the leader of the 3rd Street Saints) and the game alien antagonist Zinyak are depicted as fans of Austen's work. She appears as a figure in How the Saints Save Christmas DLC and Saints Row IV standalone expansion, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell.

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Film and television

Year Adaptation Elinor Dashwood Marianne Dashwood Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
1971 Sense and Sensibility
Television Miniseries
Joanna David Ciaran Madden David Giles Denis Constanduros
1981 Sense and Sensibility
Television Miniseries
Irene Richard Tracey Childs Rodney Bennett Alexander Baron
1995 Sense and Sensibility
Feature Film
Emma Thompson Kate Winslet Ang Lee Emma Thompson [5]
2008 Sense and Sensibility
Television Miniseries
Hattie Morahan Charity Wakefield John Alexander Andrew Davies [6]

Looser adaptations

Other references

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

This section lists film, theatre, and television adaptations only.
For literary adaptations, see: List of literary adaptations of Pride and Prejudice.

Film and television

Year Adaptation Elizabeth Bennet Fitzwilliam Darcy Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
1938 Pride and Prejudice Curigwen Lewis Andrew Osborn Michael Barry
1940 Pride and Prejudice
Feature film
Greer Garson Laurence Olivier Robert Z. Leonard Aldous Huxley
Helen Jerome
Jane Murfin
1952 Pride and Prejudice
Television miniseries
Daphne Slater Peter Cushing Campbell Logan Cedric Wallis
1957 Orgoglio e pregiudizio
Television miniseries
Virna Lisi Franco Volpi Daniele D'Anza Edoardo Anton An adaptation in Italian.
1958 Pride and Prejudice
Television miniseries
Jane Downs Alan Badel Cedric Wallis This TV series is believed to be lost; no known copies exist.
1961 De vier dochters Bennet
Television miniseries
Lies Franken Ramses Shaffy Cedric Wallis
Lo van Hensbergen
An adaptation in Dutch.
1967 Pride and Prejudice
Television miniseries
Celia Bannerman Lewis Fiander Joan Craft Nemone Lethbridge
1980 Pride and Prejudice
Television miniseries
Elizabeth Garvie David Rintoul Cyril Coke Fay Weldon
1995 Pride and Prejudice
Television miniseries
Jennifer Ehle Colin Firth Simon Langton Andrew Davies
2004 Bride & Prejudice
Feature film
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
(Lalita Bakshi)
Martin Henderson (William "Will" Darcy) Gurinder Chadha Gurinder Chadha
Paul Mayeda Berges
2005 Pride & Prejudice
Feature film
Keira Knightley Matthew Macfadyen Joe Wright Deborah Moggach

Looser adaptations

Other references

Theatre

Mansfield Park (1814)

Film and television

Year Adaptation Fanny Price Edmund Bertram Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
1983 Mansfield Park
Television miniseries
Sylvestra Le Touzel Nicholas Farrell David Giles Kenneth Taylor
1999 Mansfield Park
Feature Film
Frances O'Connor Jonny Lee Miller Patricia Rozema Patricia Rozema
2007 Mansfield Park
Television Movie
Billie Piper Blake Ritson Iain B. MacDonald Maggie Wadey

Looser adaptations

Theatre

Emma (1815)

Film and television

Year Adaptation Emma Woodhouse George Knightley Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
1948 Emma
Feature film
Judy Campbell Ralph Michael Michael Barry Judy Campbell
1960 Emma
Television miniseries
Diana Fairfax Paul Daneman Campbell Logan Vincent Tilsley
1972 Emma
Television miniseries
Doran Godwin John Carson John Glenister Denis Constanduros
1996 Emma
Feature film
Gwyneth Paltrow Jeremy Northam Douglas McGrath Douglas McGrath
1996 Emma
Television movie
Kate Beckinsale Mark Strong Diarmuid Lawrence Andrew Davies
2009 Emma
Television miniseries
Romola Garai Jonny Lee Miller Jim O'Hanlon Sandy Welch

Looser adaptations

Northanger Abbey (1817)

Film and television

Year Adaptation Catherine Morland Henry Tilney Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
1986 Northanger Abbey
Television Film
Katharine Schlesinger Peter Firth Giles Foster Maggie Wadey
2007 Northanger Abbey
Television Film
Felicity Jones J. J. Feild Jon Jones Andrew Davies

Looser adaptations

Persuasion (1817)

Film and television

Year Adaptation Anne Elliot Capt. Frederick Wentworth Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
1960 Persuasion
Television Miniseries
Daphne Slater Paul Daneman Campbell Logan Barbara Burnham
Michael Voysey
This TV series is believed to be lost; no known copies exist
1971 Persuasion
Television Miniseries
Ann Firbank Bryan Marshall Howard Baker Julian Mitchell
1995 Persuasion
Television Film
Amanda Root Ciarán Hinds Roger Michell Nick Dear Originally a Television movie, it was released in US theatres by Sony Pictures Classics.
2007 Persuasion
Television Film
Sally Hawkins Rupert Penry-Jones Adrian Shergold Simon Burke

Looser adapations

Sanditon (1817/1925)

Film and television

None

Looser adaptations

Lady Susan (1871)

Film and television

Year Adaptation Lady Susan Alicia Johnson Director Screenwriter Reference Notes
2016 Love & Friendship
Feature film
Kate Beckinsale Chloë Sevigny Whit Stillman Whit Stillman

Other references

In 1994, American literary critic Harold Bloom placed Austen among the greatest Western Writers of all time.[17] In a 2002 poll to determine whom the UK public considers the greatest British people in history, Austen was ranked number 70 in the list of the "100 Greatest Britons".[18] In 2003, Austen's Pride and Prejudice came second in the BBC's The Big Read, a national poll to find the "Nation's best-loved book."[19]

In 2007, the article Rejecting Jane by British author David Lassman, which examined how Austen would fare in the modern day publishing industry,[20][21][22][23][24] achieved worldwide attention when Austen's work—submitted under a pseudonym—was rejected by numerous publishers.[25]

Austen's writing was the inspiration for the 2013 video game Regency Love, a visual novel in which the player interacts with townspeople, friends, family, and potential suitors, looking for a suitable match. The game includes storylines inspired by Austen's writing style, as well as trivia questions about Austen's work.[26]

Bibliography

References

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