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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Titre(s) : Jane Austen [Texte imprimé] : writer in the world / edited by Kathryn Sutherland
Publication : Oxford : Bodleian library, University of Oxford, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (207 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206) and index
This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told
through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived.
Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters, the homemade booklets
in which she composed her novels and the portraits made of her during her life all
feature in this lavishly illustrated collection. By interpreting the outrageous literary
jokes in her early notebooks we can glimpse the shared reading activities of Jane
and her family, together with the love of satire and home entertainment which can
be traced in the subtler humour of her mature work. It is well known that Austen played
the piano but her music books reveal how music was used to create networks far more
intricate than the simple pleasures of home recital. Examination of Austen's pelisse-coat
tells us something about her physique and, with the lively letters to her sister Cassandra,
gives an insight into her views on fashion. The exploration of yet more objects -
the Regency novel, newspaper articles, naval logbooks, and contemporary political
cartoons - reveals Austen's filiations with wider social and political worlds. These
'things' map the threads connecting her (from India to Bath and from North America
to Chawton) to those on the international stage during the wars with France that raged
through much of her short life. Finally, this book charts her reputation over the
two hundred years since her death, offering fresh interpretations of Jane Austen's
changing place in the world
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Sutherland, Kathryn. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781851244638. - ISBN 1851244638 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45284125r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45284125
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