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Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen
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2017
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In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous desire to become another Sun King. For Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Austen may draw on the actress Dorothy Jordan, mistress of the pro-slavery Duke of Clarence, while her West Indian heiress in Sanditon may allude to Sara Baartman, who was exhibited in Paris and London as “The Hottentot Venus,” and adopted as a test case by the abolitionists. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital to her historical moment.
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Edition
1/2017
Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-839-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-843-2
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
350
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ILLUSTRATIONS No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
ABBREVIATIONS No access
INTRODUCTION No access
Ch01. “UNGOSSIPING AUTHORITY” No access Pages 1 - 70
Ch02. “HE SWORE AND HE DRANK, HE WAS DIRTY AND GROSS” No access Pages 71 - 100
Ch03. “EVERYBODY IS CROSS AND TEASING” No access Pages 101 - 142
Ch04. “CENSURE IN COMMON USE” No access Pages 143 - 160
Photospread No access Pages B - P
Ch05. “CARRIED HOME, DEAD DRUNK” No access Pages 161 - 212
Ch06. “HAIR SO UNTIDY, SO BLOWSY!” No access Pages 213 - 248
Ch07. “HALF MULATTO, CHILLY AND TENDER” No access Pages 249 - 298
CONCLUSION No access Pages 299 - 302
APPENDIX A. Mr. Joseph Nutting, Army Button Maker of Covent-Garden No access Pages 303 - 304
APPENDIX B. The Woman of Colour and “Wowski” No access Pages 305 - 310
APPENDIX C. Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron No access Pages 311 - 314
