Awkward Appendages: Comic Umbrellas in the Periodical Press
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Maria Damkjær - Panel member
There is something odd about the umbrella. Writer after writer in the nineteenth century joked that they were able to read a person's character from the state of his umbrella; and yet umbrellas were a standing joke for being lost, stolen or simply walking off on their own.
17 Apr 2015
Event (Conference)
Title | Paraphernalia! |
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Abbreviated title | Paraphernalia! |
Date | 17/04/2015 → 17/04/2015 |
Location | The Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University |
City | Leeds |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
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