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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Joceylyn Harris is professor emerita at University of Otago in Dunedin.
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.
