For this episode of The Side Comment, Tom Keymer, author of "Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics," shows the razor-sharp wit and brilliance of Jane Austen through five lesser-known facts about the novelist.

Tom Keymer is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous books about Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic-period literature and culture, including Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 (OUP, 2019), Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002), and, as editor, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750 (OUP, 2017).

Learn more about "Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics" here:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/jane-austen-9780198861904

Listen on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_GbuGD8o0

The Side Comment Crew:

Executive Producer: Steven Filippi

Host: Katelyn Philips

Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Cassandra Ammerman