Jane Austen has been important to soldiers in times of war, paraded as a feminist, deemed most conservative, found to be the first modern novelist, and read as classical. Nowadays she has gone beyond postfeminist and is on the global stage, in policital discoure on the internet, a symbol for Englishness and for Western ideals. This collection of essays explores these developments. Dow is Director of Research at Chawton House Library and Lecturer in English at Uni of Southampton. Hanson is Professor of 20th century Lit at Uni of Southampton. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. Hb. NEW. $79.00