JANE AUSTEN & THE REGENCY with John Wiltshire

Jane Austen’s novels were all published during the years of the Regency, which began officially in 1811. Though they are usually set in the country, there is plenty of reference to London in them. This lecture will explore Jane Austen’s attitudes to fashionable society and the ostentatious expenditure that was so characteristic of the Regency. Was Jane Austen really a ‘Regency novelist’?

John Wiltshire is a Professor in the School of Humanities at La Trobe University. He is the author of several books about Jane Austen, and has edited Mansfield Park for the authoritative Cambridge edition. His most recent books are The Cinematic Jane Austen (2009) and The Making of Dr Johnson (2009).