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Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.

• Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship
• Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies
• Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

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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. Greenfi eld
 
 
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 Mansfi eld 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

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