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Jane Austen was--is-- a sly subversive, a clear-eyed social Darwinist, and the most unsparing satirist of her century. She's wicked, arch, and utterly merciless. She skewers the pompous, the pious, and the libidinous with the animal glee of a natural-born sadist. She takes sharp, swift swipes at the social structure and leaves it, not lethally wounded, but shorn of its petrifying garb, its flabby flesh exposed in all its naked grossness. And then she laughs.
Robert Rodi, Bitch in a Bonnet (intro to both volumes)
