Austen, Actresses and Accessories: Much ADO about Muffs - Hardcover
by L. Engel
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Availability:In StockContributor:L. EngelTheme:Aspects (Academic)/Historical, Chronological Period/19th Century, Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:11/28/2014Pages:84
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave PivotISBN-13:9781137427922ISBN-10:1137427922UPC:9781137427922Book Category:Design, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Fashion & Accessories, Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SCVCXRJ8FW
This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female performance, display and desire through her deployment of a culturally and symbolically charged accessory: the muff.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave PivotISBN-13:9781137427922ISBN-10:1137427922UPC:9781137427922Book Category:Design, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Fashion & Accessories, Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SCVCXRJ8FW
Laura Engel is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Duquesne University where she specializes in eighteenth-century British Literature and Theater. She is the author of Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making (2011) and co-editor with Elaine McGirr of Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater 1660-1830 (2014).
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Edition
2015 Edition
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