“Eighteenth-Century Satire.” The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. General Editors, Gary Day and Jack Lynch. Wiley-Blackwell: 2015.
"Though realistic, [Jane Austen's] fiction is permeated by irony: the opposition of context and subtext ever-present in productions of earlier satirists and effective in novels as a means of revealing inequity. Her terse phrasing, limited use of metaphor, and knowing tone show that verse satire remained influential after its generic recession, when the novel was a salient popular form."