Binding: Hardcover
Description: A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress clothing fashion and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen's life and writings 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 Lavishly illustrated with paintings drawings historic garments and fashion plates including many previously unpublished images this authoritative yet accessible book will help readers visualize the external selves of Austen's immortal characters as clearly as she wrote of their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.
Title: Dress In The Age Of Jane Austen Regency Fashion
Author(s): Davidson Hilary
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300218725
Pages: 336 Pages, 180 Color Illus.
Publication Date: 11/12/2019
Category: Gender Studies: Women