No other book on Jane Austen can boast such a rich collection of contemporary critical views as Re-Drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland. Its essays are entirely original, and cover the main orientations in current Austen criticism, making up an extensive Critical Reader that will contribute to shed new light on the Austen phenomenon through an unprecedented variety of authoritative critical interventions and debates. The eighteenth-century notion of the picturesque, underlying the book’s two sections, responds both to the ironic openness of Austen’s writings and to our contemporary taste for multiperspectivism.