L. Engel

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Austen, Actresses and Accessories (eBook, PDF)

Much Ado About Muffs

Beschreibung

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.

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137427946
• Artikelnr.: 45972556

Rezensionen

"This was easily one of the most enjoyable academic works I have read in recent years. ... Happily, for twenty-first-century readers, Engel makes much ado about muffs, and in so doing, makes a valuable and absorbing contribution to the study of the intersections between material culture, fiction, and the visual and performing arts of the long eighteenth century." (Heather Ladd, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 32 (1), 2019)