{"product_id":"9780300218725","title":"Dress in the Age of Jane Austen : Regency Fashion","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Davidson, Hilary, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/10\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages, 180 color illus.,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Yale University Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Biography: literary, Fashion\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780300218725\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings, historic garments, and fashion plates-including many previously unpublished images-this authoritative yet accessible book will help readers visualize the external selves of Austen's immortal characters as clearly as she wrote of their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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021522895001,"sku":"9780300218725","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780300218725.jpg?v=1602540434","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780300218725","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}