Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen

by Jocelyn Harris

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611488443
• ISBN13: 9781611488449
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"