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Author:
Davidson, Hilary, author.
Title:
Dress in the age of Jane Austen : Regency fashion / Hilary Davidson.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
324 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 27 cm
Subject:
Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Costume--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Costume--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Fashion--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Fashion--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Influence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Notes for the read -- Introduction -- Self -- Home -- Village -- Country -- City -- Nation -- World -- Conclusion -- Jane Austen's family tree -- List of characters in Jane Austen's fiction -- Changes in the contruction of women's gowns, 1790-1820.
Summary:
This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane Austen's beloved books, focusing on the long Regency between the years 1795 and 1825. During this period, accelerated change saw Britain's turbulent entry into the modern age, and clothing reflected these transformations. Starting with the intimate perspective of clothing the self, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen moves outward through the social and cultural spheres of home, village, countryside, and cities, and into the wider national and global realms, exploring the varied ways people dressed to inhabit these environments. Jane Austen's famously observant fictional writings, as well as her letters, provide the entry point for examining the Regency age's rich complexity of fashion, dress, and textiles for men and women in their contemporary contexts. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings, historic garments, and fashion plates-including many previously unpublished images-this authoritative yet accessible book will help readers visualize the external selves of Austen's immortal characters as clearly as she wrote of their internal ones. The result is an enhanced understanding of Austen's work and time, and also of the history of one of Britain's most distinctive fashion eras.
ISBN:
0300218729
9780300218725
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1124752548
LCCN:
2019939614
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
GHPD771 -- Grimes Public Library (Grimes)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)
VCPD034 -- Robey Memorial Library-Waukon (Waukon)

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