The Making of Jane Austin

The Making of Jane Austen

by Devoney Looser

New in Paperback 1/22/19

". . . energetic and revealing."—Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review

Downloadable Resources

• Press Release
• Cover Photo 
• Author Photo - Headshot
• Author Photo
• Table of Contents
• Sample Chapter
• Author CV

In The News

• Outlook Magazine (India)
• Real Simple
• The Atlantic — opinion piece
• PBS NewsHour
• Big Issue North
• Times Literary Supplement
• LitHub
• Salon — opinion piece
• The New York Times — opinion piece
• ABC Canberra's "Mornings with Genevieve Jacobs"
• Wall Street Journal
• The New York Review of Books
• Literary Review
• Foreword
• Times Higher Education
• Bustle
• Arizona State University — Q&A
• Publishers Weekly — Best Summer Books of 2017
• BookBub 
• The New York Times — Alt-Right Jane Austen
• The New York Times Book Review Podcast (starting at 41:35)
• ASU Now — 5 Things You Need to Know About Jane Austen
• Women's Writing Vol. 25 Review

Related Media

• The Making of Jane Austen Website
• Devoney Looser's Website
• The Atlantic — Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen's Accidental Feminists
• Times Literary Supplement — Whatever her persuasion (cover story)
• [AUDIO] Times Literary Supplement Voices podcast
• The Independent — Mr. Darcy through the ages
• Entertainment Weekly — Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Ultimate fan face-off
• ANU TV Interview with Will Christie
• [AUDIO] Talking Books interview with Susan Cahill
• [AUDIO] Books and Arts, ABC Radio National
• [AUDIO] Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 

Author Bio 

Devoney Looser is a professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Making of Jane Austen, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1780—1850,  and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670—1820.

A few of her most recent awards, fellowships, and grants: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and Universities Teachers Grant (2012), Mizzou Advantage Grant for Digital Humanities Network (2012-13), Choice Oustanding Academic Title (2015), Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities Award from ASU (2016).

To view her complete list extensive experience and accolades, you can access her CV. You can follow Looser on Twitter at @DevoneyLooser.