Table of Contents
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors x
List of Abbreviations xvii
A Note to the Reader xviii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1 Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite
Part I The Life and the Texts 11
1 Jane Austen's Life and Letters 13 Kathryn Sutherland
2 The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality 31 Robert L. Mack
3 The Literary Marketplace 41 Jan Fergus
4 Texts and Editions 51 Brian Southam
5 Jane Austen, Illustrated 62 Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire
Part II Reading the Texts 79
6 Young Jane Austen: Author 81 Juliet McMaster
7 Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility 91 Susan C. Greenfield
8 The Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen’s Uses of Enchantment 101 Sonia Hofkosh
9 Re: Reading Pride and Prejudice: "What think you of books?" 112 Susan J. Wolfson
10 The Missed Opportunities of Mansfield Park 123 William Galperin
11 Emma: Word Games and Secret Histories 133 Linda Bree
12 Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning 143 Fiona Stafford
13 Sanditon and the Book 153 George Justice
Part III Literary Genres and Genealogies 163
14 Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind 165 Margaret Anne Doody
15 Narrative Technique: Austen and Her Contemporaries 185 Jane Spencer
16 Time and Her Aunt 195 Michael Wood
17 Austen's Realist Play 206 Harry E. Shaw
18 Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing 216 Devoney Looser
19 Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling, and Print Culture 226 Miranda Burgess
20 The Gothic Austen 237 Nancy Armstrong
Part IV Political, Social, and Cultural Worlds 249
21 From Politics to Silence: Jane Austen’s Nonreferential Aesthetic 251 Mary Poovey
22 The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars 261 Gillian Russell
23 Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution 272 Mary Spongberg
24 Feminisms 282 Vivien Jones
25 Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park 292 Deirdre Coleman
26 Jane Austen and the Nation 304 Claire Lamont
27 Religion 314 Roger E. Moore
28 Family Matters 323 Ruth Perry
29 Austen and Masculinity 332 E. J. Clery
30 The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodifi cation of Sociability 343 Barbara M. Benedict
31 Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in Austen’s Narratives 355 Diego Saglia
32 Austen's Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine 366 Gillen D'Arcy Wood
33 Jane Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory, and Enculturation 377 Daniel O'Quinn
Part V Reception and Reinvention 389
34 Jane Austen and Genius 391 Deidre Lynch
35 Jane Austen's Periods 402 Mary A. Favret
36 Nostalgia 413 Nicholas Dames
37 Austen's European Reception 422 Anthony Mandal
38 Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel 434 Edward Copeland
39 Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas 444 Katie Trumpener
40 Sexuality 456 Fiona Brideoake
41 Jane Austen and Popular Culture 467 Judy Simons
42 Austenian Subcultures 478 Mary Ann O'Farrell
Bibliography 488
Index 513