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) launches a broadside against the depiction of Jane Austen as a â€œa womanâ€™s writer â€¦ quaint and darling, doe-eyed and demure, parochial if not pastoral, and dizzily, swooningly romantic â€” the inventor and mother goddess of â€˜chick lit.â€™â€ Instead he sees her as â€œa sly subversive, a clear-eyed social Darwinist, and the most unsparing satirist of her century.â€ In this volume, which collects and amplifies two-and-a-half yearsâ€™ worth of blog entries, he combs through the first three novels in Austenâ€™s canon â€” Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park 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€œHiarious ... Rodiâ€™s title is a tribute. Heâ€™s angry that the Austen craze has defanged a novelist whoâ€™s â€˜wicked, arch, and utterly merciless. She skewers the pompous, the pious, and the libidinous with the animal glee of a natural-born sadistâ€™ â€¦ Like Rodi, I believe Austen deserves to join the grand pantheon of gadflies: Voltaire and Swift, Twain and Mencken.â€ - Lev Raphael, The Huffington Post
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781469922652
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781469922652
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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