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Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Bucknell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (389 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611488432
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane AustenDDC classification:
  • 823.7
LOC classification:
  • PR4037.H377 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Ch01. "UNGOSSIPING AUTHORITY" -- Ch02. "HE SWORE AND HE DRANK, HE WAS DIRTY AND GROSS" -- Ch03. "EVERYBODY IS CROSS AND TEASING" -- Ch04. "CENSURE IN COMMON USE" -- Photospread -- Ch05. "CARRIED HOME, DEAD DRUNK" -- Ch06. "HAIR SO UNTIDY, SO BLOWSY!" -- Ch07. "HALF MULATTO, CHILLY AND TENDER" -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A -- 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 Byron -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Summary: In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, exciting new discoveries reveal Austen's opinions on the state of the nation, Captain Cook's death, and women's right to comment on politics, including the slave-trade, while allusions to celebrities demonstrate her worldliness, fascination with politics, and relish of rumor.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Ch01. "UNGOSSIPING AUTHORITY" -- Ch02. "HE SWORE AND HE DRANK, HE WAS DIRTY AND GROSS" -- Ch03. "EVERYBODY IS CROSS AND TEASING" -- Ch04. "CENSURE IN COMMON USE" -- Photospread -- Ch05. "CARRIED HOME, DEAD DRUNK" -- Ch06. "HAIR SO UNTIDY, SO BLOWSY!" -- Ch07. "HALF MULATTO, CHILLY AND TENDER" -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A -- 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 Byron -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, exciting new discoveries reveal Austen's opinions on the state of the nation, Captain Cook's death, and women's right to comment on politics, including the slave-trade, while allusions to celebrities demonstrate her worldliness, fascination with politics, and relish of rumor.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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