{"id":2625,"date":"2013-07-24T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2013-07-24T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:34:40","slug":"seeing-art-through-austen%e2%80%99s-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/07\/24\/seeing-art-through-austen%e2%80%99s-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Art Through Austen\u2019s Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A preview of the exhibition "What Jane Saw."<\/p><\/div>\n

Relating to CC202\u2032s study of\u00a0Jane Austen’s work is an article from the NY Times<\/em> discussing her ventures into art. Here is an extract:<\/p>\n

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Now, precisely 200 years later, an ambitious online exhibition called\u00a0\u201cWhat Jane Saw\u201d will allow modern-day Janeiacs to wander through a meticulous reconstruction of the exhibition and put themselves, if not quite in Austen\u2019s shoes, at least behind her eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the closest thing to time travel on the Web,\u201d said Janine Barchas, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, who led the project.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201cwas a wonderful moment in the history of celebrity culture,\u201d said Joseph Roach, a professor of theater and English at Yale University and the author of\u00a0\u201cIt\u201d (2007), a cultural history of the charisma that distinguishes \u201cabnormally interesting\u201d people. \u201cThere was a new kind of royalty emerging.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Austen, Ms. Barchas said, would have been as interested in that new royalty as any modern reader gobbling up TMZ updates about Kate Middleton and Brangelina. In her recent book,\u00a0\u201cMatters of Fact in Jane Austen,\u201d Ms. Barchas traces the way Austen wove sly nods to actresses, artists, parliamentarians and scandal-ridden aristocrats into her novels \u2014 almost \u201cin the spirit of a preteen adorning a bedroom with Justin Bieber posters,\u201d as one\u00a0reviewer put it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the full article, visit\u00a0nyti.ms\/18Di6iv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relating to CC202\u2032s study of\u00a0Jane Austen’s work is an article from the NY Times discussing her ventures into art. Here is an extract: Now, precisely 200 years later, an ambitious online exhibition called\u00a0\u201cWhat Jane Saw\u201d will allow modern-day Janeiacs to wander through a meticulous reconstruction of the exhibition and put themselves, if not quite in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48727,3831,4687,37480,48382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}