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Jane Austen: Writer in the World (Hardcover)
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Jane Austen: Writer in the World (Hardcover)
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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.
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