Austen, actresses, and accessories : much ado about muffs

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    • Engel, Laura

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Austen, actresses, and accessories : much ado about muffs

Laura Engel

(Palgrave pivot)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-78) and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Much Ado About Muffs 1. Around 1787: Austen's Volume the First, the Elizas, Private Theatricals, and Muffs 2. Restless Luxuries: Muffs in Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility 3. Jane Austen as Fashion Plate: Musings on Muffs Epilogue: The Afterlife of Muffs Bibliography Index

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