Dr Octavia Cox | What is a BARONETCY? Sir Walter & the “dignity of baronet”: Jane Austen PERSUASION class analysis @DrOctaviaCox | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
Jane Austen’s Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion boasts of the “dignity of baronet”. But what social class are baronets? Are they classed with nobility? Or do they rank with gentry? Or somewhere in between? And what even are baronets? What is a baronet? What is a baronetcy? Lots of questions! The lecture provides some answers: it defines & explains the meaning of baronet & baronetcy; examines the place of baronets in the social class hierarchy; & interrogates the “dignity” of Sir Walter Elliot’s baronetcy by analysing Sir Walter’s favourite book, The Baronetage, alongside John Dubrett’s Baronetage of England (first published in 1808). And why does Jane Austen provide us with such specific detail about the Elliots’ “rise” through “exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II”?

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