Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the

Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps

Novelist Rodi (Fag Hag, The Sugarman Bootlegs) continues his broadside against the depiction of Jane Austen as a â‚¬Å“a womanâ‚¬s writer â‚¬Â¦ quaint and darling, doe-eyed and demure, parochial if not pastoral, and dizzily, swooningly romantic â‚¬" the inventor and mother goddess of â‚¬Ëœchick lit.â‚¬â‚¬Â Instead he sees her as â‚¬Å“a sly subversive, a clear-eyed social Darwinist, and the most unsparing satirist of her century.â‚¬Â In this volume, which collects and amplifies three yearsâ‚¬ worth of blog entries, he combs through the final three novels in Austenâ‚¬s canon â‚¬" Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion â‚¬" with the aim of charting her growth as both a novelist and a humorist, and of shattering the notion that sheâ‚¬s a romantic of any kind. â‚¬Å“Hiarious ... Rodiâ‚¬s title is a tribute. Heâ‚¬s angry that the Austen craze has defanged a novelist whoâ‚¬s â‚¬Ëœwicked, arch, and utterly merciless. She skewers the pompous, the pious, and the libidinous with the animal glee of a natural-born sadistâ‚¬ â‚¬Â¦ Like Rodi, I believe Austen deserves to join the grand pantheon of gadflies: Voltaire and Swift, Twain and Mencken.â‚¬Â - Lev Raphael, The Huffington Post
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Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781499133769
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps

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