Author: Susan Watkins
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500014950
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this book "we experience through the eyes of a country gentlewoman the styles and customs of this attractice era : how the gentry lived, dressed, dined and were entertained ; and where they lived, amid the aesthetic splendours of the English country house and its handsome counterpart in the town. Doors are flung open to reveal the shade and stripe of wallpaper, the arrangement of furnture, and even the complete workings of the kitchen." -- book jacket.
Jane Austen's Town and Country Style
Author: Susan Watkins
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500014950
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this book "we experience through the eyes of a country gentlewoman the styles and customs of this attractice era : how the gentry lived, dressed, dined and were entertained ; and where they lived, amid the aesthetic splendours of the English country house and its handsome counterpart in the town. Doors are flung open to reveal the shade and stripe of wallpaper, the arrangement of furnture, and even the complete workings of the kitchen." -- book jacket.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500014950
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this book "we experience through the eyes of a country gentlewoman the styles and customs of this attractice era : how the gentry lived, dressed, dined and were entertained ; and where they lived, amid the aesthetic splendours of the English country house and its handsome counterpart in the town. Doors are flung open to reveal the shade and stripe of wallpaper, the arrangement of furnture, and even the complete workings of the kitchen." -- book jacket.
Jane Austen's Town and Country Style
Author: Susan Watkins
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The world of novelist Jane Austen was a place of unsurpassed elegance, beauty, and refinement. This book documents Jane Austen's world: Stoneleigh Abbey, quaint country retreats and stylish town houses. A Buyer's Directory, for those who want to recreate this era in their own homes is included.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The world of novelist Jane Austen was a place of unsurpassed elegance, beauty, and refinement. This book documents Jane Austen's world: Stoneleigh Abbey, quaint country retreats and stylish town houses. A Buyer's Directory, for those who want to recreate this era in their own homes is included.
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen
Author: Hilary Davidson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300218729
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300218729
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.
In the Steps of Jane Austen
Author: Anne-Marie Edward
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907753025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907753025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Why Jane Austen?
Author: Rachel Brownstein
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153910
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153910
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.
Jane Austen and Leisure
Author: David Selwyn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826446671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826446671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.
Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England
Author: Roger Sales
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134838352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Regency crisis of 1810-12 * the way in which Austen engaged in topical debates such as healthcare in both Emma and Persuasion.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134838352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Regency crisis of 1810-12 * the way in which Austen engaged in topical debates such as healthcare in both Emma and Persuasion.
Jane Austen and Children
Author: David Selwyn
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847250416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Explores the surprisingly important part that children play in the novels of Jane Austen and the contribution they make to understanding her adult characters. >
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847250416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Explores the surprisingly important part that children play in the novels of Jane Austen and the contribution they make to understanding her adult characters. >
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Author: Edward Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Jane Austen and the State of the Nation
Author: Sheryl Craig
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137544554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137544554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.