A dance with Jane Austen: How a novelist and her characters went to the ball
Inbunden bok. Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2012. 160 sidor.
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"Jane Austen loved to put on her satin slippers with shoe-roses, her white gloves and muslin gown, and go off for an evening of fun at the Basingstoke assemblies. The Bennet girls share their creator's delight and go off joyfully to dance, and of course to meet future husbands. Drawing on contemporary accounts and illustrations, and a close reading of the novels as well as Austen's correspondence, Susannah Fullerton takes the reader through all the stages of a Regency Ball as Jane Austen and her characters would have known it. Her subjects learn their steps, dress in readiness, find transport to convey them to a ball, choose between public and private balls, worry over a shortage of men, prefer a cotillion to a quadrille, talk and flirt with their partners, sustain themselves with supper, fall in love, and then go home to talk it all over at the end."
"Susannah Fullerton has done her research and written a book that will give much pleasure to anyone interested in the kind of dancing which Jane Austen and her contemporaries enjoyed. Lavishly illustrated, (and the piccies are seriously pretty), the book will tell you all sorts of thngs you didn't realise you wnated to know, while introducing you to a world of swirling, twirling silk and satin designed to advertise the beautiful people on the hunt for a mate.' Jane Austen Society Newsletter 'Drawing upon contemporary accounts, Austen's own correspondence, and a detailed reading of the novels, Fullerton presents the reader with a charming insider's guide to a Regency ball.' Good Book Guide 'readers wishing for more details about Austen's ball scenes, for a clearer sense of what would be worn at a ball, what kind of music would be played, and what sort of manners were typical, will want to consult A Dance with Jane Austen."
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780711232457
- Titel
- A dance with Jane Austen : how a novelist and her characters went to the ball
- Författare
- Fullerton, Susannah
- Förlag
- London, England : Frances Lincoln Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-156) and index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- Learning to dance -- "An effective exhibition": dressing for the dance -- Getting to and from a ball -- Assembly balls -- Private balls -- Etiquette of the ballroom -- Men in the ballroom -- Dancing and music -- "They sat down to supper" -- Conversation and courtship -- The shade of a departed ball -- Dance in Jane Austen films -- Bibliography -- A note about the text -- Acknowledgments.
