A Companion to Jane Austen Studies

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction xi
• 1 - Sense and Sensibility: A Convergence of Readers/Viewers/Browsers 1
• Works Cited 16
• 2 - A Critical History of Sense and Sensibility 17
• Works Cited 25
• 3 - The Oppositional Reader and Pride and Prejudice 27
• Works Cited 38
• 4 - Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen and Her Readers 41
• Works Cited 54
• 5 - Fanny Price's "Customary" Subjectivity: Rereading the Individual in Mansfield Park 57
• Works Cited 69
• 6 - The Critical History of Mansfield Park 71
• Works Cited 84
• 7 - Lampoon and Lampoonability: Emma and the Riddle of Popularity 87

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction xi
• 1 - Sense and Sensibility: A Convergence of Readers/Viewers/Browsers 1
• Works Cited 16
• 2 - A Critical History of Sense and Sensibility 17
• Works Cited 25
• 3 - The Oppositional Reader and Pride and Prejudice 27
• Works Cited 38
• 4 - Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen and Her Readers 41
• Works Cited 54
• 5 - Fanny Price's "Customary" Subjectivity: Rereading the Individual in Mansfield Park 57
• Works Cited 69
• 6 - The Critical History of Mansfield Park 71
• Works Cited 84
• 7 - Lampoon and Lampoonability: Emma and the Riddle of Popularity 87
• Works Cited 95
• 8 - "And Very Good Lists They Were": Select Critical Readings of Jane Austen's Emma 97
• Works Cited 112
• 9 - Rereading Jane Austen: Dialogic Feminism in Northanger Abbey 115
• Works Cited 129
• 10 - Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Bibliographic Study 131
• Works Cited 142
• 11 - Persuasion's Box of Contradictions 145
• Works Cited 157
• 12 - Degrees of Maturity: The Bibliographic History of Jane Austen's Persuasion 159
• Works Cited 168
• 13 - The Juvenilia: Energy versus Sympathy 173
• Works Cited 188
• 14 - Child's Play: A Short Publication and Critical History, of Jane Austen's Juvenilia 191
• Works Cited 195
• 15 - Tender Toes, Bow-wows, Meow-meows and the Devil: Jane Austen and the Nature of Evil 199
• Works Cited 213
• 16 - Lady Susan: A Bibliographical Essay 215
• Works Cited 222
• 17 - On the Virtues of Stout Half-Boots, Speculation and a Little Fresh Hair Powder: A Political, Yet Jovial, Reading of Jane Austen's The Watsons 225
• Works Cited 240
• 18 - The Watsons: Critical Interpretations 241
• Works Cited 250
• 19 - Jane Austen's Sanditon 253
• Works Cited 257
• 20 - Jane Austen's Letters in the Nineteenth Century: The Politics of Nostalgia 259
• Works Cited 273
• 21 - Humor and Wit in Jane Austen's Poems and Charades 275
• Works Cited 281
• 22 - Jane Austen's Prayers: Deism Becoming Theism 283
• Works Cited 289
• Selected Bibliography 291
• Index 307
• About the Editors and Contributors 313