Austen, Actresses and Accessories

Much ADO about Muffs
2015. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-42792-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 84 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engel, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Much Ado About Muffs 1. Around 1787: Austen's Volume the First, the Elizas, Private Theatricals, and Muffs 2. Restless Luxuries: Muffs in Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility 3. Jane Austen as Fashion Plate: Musings on Muffs Epilogue: The Afterlife of Muffs Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).