Physical Description:print xx, 537 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher:Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Publications, 2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- A note to the reader -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Cluadia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite -- Jane Austen's life and letters / Kathryn Sutherland -- The Austen family writing : gossip, parody, and corporate personality / Robert L. Mack -- The literary marketplace / Jan Fergus -- Texts and editions / Brian Southam -- Jane Austen, illustrated / Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire -- Young Jane Austen : author / Juliet McMaster -- Moving in and out : the property of self in Sense and sensibility / Susan C. Greenfield -- The illusionist : Northanger Abbey and Austen's uses of enchantment / Sonia Hofkosh -- Re: reading Pride and prejudice : "what think you of books?" / Susan J. Wolfson -- The missed opportunities of Mansfield Park / William Galperin -- Emma : word games and secret histories / Linda Bree -- Persuasion : the gradual dawning / Fiona Stafford -- Sanditon and the book / George Justice -- Turns of speech and figures of mind / Margaret Anne Doody -- Narrative technique : Austen and her contemporaries / Jane Spencer -- Time and her aunt / Michael Wood -- Austen's realist play / Harry E. Shaw -- Dealing in notions and facts : Jane Austen and history writing / Devoney Looser -- Sentiment and sensibility : Austen, feeling, and print culture / Miranda Burgess -- The Gothic Austen / Nancy Armstrong -- From politics to silence : Jane Austen's nonreferential aesthetic / Mary Poovey -- The army, the navy, and the Napoleonic wars / Gillian Russell -- Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution / Mary Spongberg -- Feminisms / Viven Jones -- Imagining sameness and difference : domestic and colonial sisters in Mansfield Park / Deirdre Coleman -- Jane Austen and the nation / Claire Lamont -- Religion / Roger E. Moore -- Family matters / Ruth Perry -- Austen and masculinity / E.J. Clery -- The trouble with things : objects and the commodification of sociability / Barbara M. Benedict -- Luxury : making sense of excess in Austen's narratives / Diego Saglia -- Austen's accomplishment : music and the modern heroine / Gillen D'Arcy Wood -- Jane Austen and performance : theatre, memory, and enculturation / Daniel O'Quinn -- Jane Austen and genius / Deidre Lynch -- Jane Austen's periods / Mary A. Favret -- Nostalgia / Nicholas Dames -- Austen's European reception / Anthony Mandal -- Jane Austen and the silver fork novel / Edward Copeland -- Jane Austen in the world : new women, imperial vistas / Katie Trumpener -- Sexuality / Fiona Brideoake -- Jane Austen and popular culture / Judy Simons -- Austenian subcultures / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Bibliography -- Index.
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