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Description In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen\'s novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates.
She is the author of Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel and the creator of the What Jane Saw website: www.whatjanesaw.org..
About the Author Janine Barchas is a professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.
This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writer\'s work.
Barchas re-situates Austen\'s work closer to the historical novels of her contemporary Sir Walter Scott and away from the domestic and biographical perspectives that until recently have dominated Austen studies.
She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent.
The names Austen plucks from History for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day.
Of course, the argument that Austen deployed famous names presupposes an active Celebrity culture during the Regency, a phenomenon recently accepted by scholars.
According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel.
Barchas is the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen\'s fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online.
Description In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen\'s novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates