Jocelyn Harris

Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611489392
• Artikelnr.: 74831442

Autorenporträt

Jocelyn Harris is professor emerita at University of Otago in Dunedin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: "Ungossiping authority": Fanny Burney
Cassandra Cooke
and Jane Austen Chapter 2: "He swore and he drank": Lieutenant Price and Lieutenant Phillips Chapter 3: "Everybody is cross and teasing": The Mansfield Theatricals Chapter 4: "Censure in common use": Women
Satire
and Politics Chapter 5: "Carried home
dead drunk": Satires on the Royal Family Chapter 6: "Hair so untidy
so blowsy!" Elizabeth Bennet
Dorothy Jordan
and the Duke of Clarence Chapter 7: "Half Mulatto
chilly & tender": Sanditon
the Duke of Clarence
and Sara Baartman
the "Hottentot Venus" Conclusion Jane Austen's Belated Celebrity Appendix A: Mr. Joseph Nutting
Army Button Maker of Covent-Garden Appendix B: The Woman of Colour and "Wowski" Appendix C: Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Bibliography Index About the Author