CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments = ⅸ
Introduction : Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism / Devoney Looser = 1
Ⅰ. CHANGING HISTORIES
1. Jane Austen, Romantic Feminism, and Civil Society / Gary Kelly = 19
2. "Invention Is What Delights Me" : Jane Austen's Remaking of "English" History / Antoinette Burton = 35
3. Jane Austen and the Engendering of Disciplinarity / Clifford Siskin = 51
Ⅱ. CRITICAL REEXAMINATIONS
4. Jane Austen and the Marriage Plot : Questions of Persistence / Laura Mooneyham White = 71
5. Jane Austen and the Burden of the(Male) Past : The Case Reexamined / Jocelyn Harris = 87
6. Consolidated Communities : Masculine and Feminine Values in Jane Austen's Fiction / Glenda A. Hudson = 101
Ⅲ. FEMINIST DISCOURSES IN DIALOGUE
7. Vindicating Northanger Abbey : Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Gothic Feminism / Diane Hoeveler = 117
8. In Defense of the Gothic : Rereading Northanger Abbey / Maria Jerinic = 137
9. Privacy, Privilege, and "Poaching" in Mansfield Park / Ellen Gardiner = 151
10. "The Different Sorts of Friendship" : Desire in Mansfield Park / Misty G. Anderson = 167
Bibliography = 185
Contributors = 193
Index = 195