Regency in the 21st Century

The real regency was a time of corn laws, economic problems owing to huge spending on the war. Such events are so rigorously excluded from austin's fiction that mike lee's 20 19 film peterloo, about the radical politics of the era, hardly reads as regency at all. The particular nature of the 19 thirties regency revival casts igt on how we receive the austinesque.