۲۰۱۷ outlines a bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death, an author who has left an ever-lasting literary bequest that ceaselessly influences renouned enlightenment opposite time. In jubilee of this legacy, Rare Books and Special Collections during UBC Library is gay to benefaction “Ever Austen: Literary Timelessness in a Regency Period.” This muster not usually honours Austen, though also illuminates a amicable and element story of her works in a context of a Regency era.
Featuring RBSC’s newly-acquired initial editions of Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, as good as thematically-diverse displays, “Ever Austen” invites Austen fans aged and new to knowledge a literary tour by a late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In serve to RBSC’s new Austen acquisitions, initial editions of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility will also be displayed and accompanied by several intemperate illustrated editions. Austen’s juvenilia, as good as some titles that she kept on her personal shelves, will serve yield insights into Austen’s infirm years. Conduct books and Fordyce’s sermons will be shown as a prescriptions of womanlike virtue, morality, and accomplishment, that Austen instilled in her heroines.
The Exhibition:
Illustrating a arise of a new literary genre, a muster will also underline an early Gothic section, a character that prominently impacted characterizations in Austen’s Northanger Abbey. This section’s haunts will dawn in a newly-acquired initial book prints of Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho, as good as in her intrigue The Italian. Juxtaposed with volumes of Horace Walpole’s finish literary works, a indication of a Gothic villa Strawberry Hill will benefaction an authentic perspective of these stories’ architectural descriptions. The wily caricatures in George Cruikshank’s illustrations will yield a comic service for these darker pages, desirable a spectator with their substantial amicable explanation and domestic satire.
Delicate articles of wardrobe from a early nineteenth century, pleasantly on loan from a Vancouver-based Society for a Museum of Original Costume (SMOC), will also be on display.
Finally, a extent of Austen’s bequest will be exhibited in a many remediations that her narratives have taken in new decades, trimming from graphic novels to a large screen. In a exhibition’s multimedia display, cocktail enlightenment will accommodate duration texts with an array of transmutations into different forms of media, languages, and images.
As a means to offer serve information and insights about a period, a row contention orderly in and with a muster will take place on Feb 3rd. The contention will underline talks from professors Tiffany Potter, Miranda Burgess, and Scott MacKenzie of UBC’s Department of English, and will be moderated by SFU’s Professor Michelle Levy, an management on imitation enlightenment during Austen’s era.
The exhibition, “Ever Austen: Literary Timelessness in a Regency Period “, will be displayed in a IKBLC’s categorical corridor from Jan 4 to Feb 28, 2017.
