Making of Jane Austen Looser DevoneyPaperback / softback
Making of Jane Austen Looser DevoneyPaperback / softback Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? The daring…
Specifikacia Making of Jane Austen Looser DevoneyPaperback / softback
Making of Jane Austen Looser DevoneyPaperback / softback
Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing room audiences. Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know.Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide.
The author of the first Jane Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its bizarre stories.