A Companion to Jane Austen

Copyright © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Jane Austen

Editor(s): Claudia L. Johnson, Clara Tuite

Published Online: 6 MAR 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405149099

Online ISBN: 9781444305968

DOI: 10.1002/9781444305968

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xx)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–9)

      Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite

  3. Part I: The Life and the Texts

    1. Chapter 1

      Jane Austen's Life and Letters (pages 11–30)

      Kathryn Sutherland

    2. Chapter 2

      The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality (pages 31–40)

      Robert L. Mack

    3. Chapter 3

      The Literary Marketplace (pages 41–50)

      Jan Fergus

    4. Chapter 4

      Texts and Editions (pages 51–61)

      Brian Southam

    5. Chapter 5

      Jane Austen, Illustrated (pages 62–77)

      Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire

  4. Part II: Reading the Texts

    1. Chapter 6

      Young Jane Austen: Author (pages 79–90)

      Juliet McMaster

    2. Chapter 7

      Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility (pages 91–100)

      Susan C. Greenfield

    3. Chapter 8

      The Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen's Uses of Enchantment (pages 101–111)

      Sonia Hofkosh

    4. Chapter 9

      Re: Reading Pride and Prejudice: “What think you of books?” (pages 112–122)

      Susan J. Wolfson

    5. Chapter 10

      The Missed Opportunities of Mansfield Park (pages 123–132)

      William Galperin

    6. Chapter 11

      Emma: Word Games and Secret Histories (pages 133–142)

      Linda Bree

    7. Chapter 12

      Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning (pages 143–152)

      Fiona Stafford

    8. Chapter 13

      Sanditon and the Book (pages 153–162)

      George Justice

  5. Part III: Literary Genres and Genealogies

    1. Chapter 14

      Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind (pages 163–184)

      Margaret Anne Doody

    2. Chapter 15

      Narrative Technique: Austen and Her Contemporaries (pages 185–194)

      Jane Spencer

    3. Chapter 16

      Time and Her Aunt (pages 195–205)

      Michael Wood

    4. Chapter 17

      Austen's Realist Play (pages 206–215)

      Harry E. Shaw

    5. Chapter 18

      Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing (pages 216–225)

      Devoney Looser

    6. Chapter 19

      Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling, and Print Culture (pages 226–236)

      Miranda Burgess

    7. Chapter 20

      The Gothic Austen (pages 237–247)

      Nancy Armstrong

  6. Part IV: Political, Social, and Cultural Worlds

    1. Chapter 21

      From Politics to Silence: Jane Austen's Nonreferential Aesthetic (pages 249–260)

      Mary Poovey

    2. Chapter 22

      The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars (pages 261–271)

      Gillian Russell

    3. Chapter 23

      Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution (pages 272–281)

      Mary Spongberg

    4. Chapter 24

      Feminisms (pages 282–291)

      Vivien Jones

    5. Chapter 25

      Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park (pages 292–303)

      Deirdre Coleman

    6. Chapter 26

      Jane Austen and the Nation (pages 304–313)

      Claire Lamont

    7. Chapter 27

      Religion (pages 314–322)

      Roger E. Moore

    8. Chapter 28

      Family Matters (pages 323–331)

      Ruth Perry

    9. Chapter 29

      Austen and Masculinity (pages 332–342)

      E. J. Clery

    10. Chapter 30

      The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodification of Sociability (pages 343–354)

      Barbara M. Benedict

    11. Chapter 31

      Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in Austen's Narratives (pages 355–365)

      Diego Saglia

    12. Chapter 32

      Austen's Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine (pages 366–376)

      Gillen D'arcy Wood

    13. Chapter 33

      Jane Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory, and Enculturation (pages 377–388)

      Daniel O'Quinn

  7. Part V: Reception and Reinvention

    1. Chapter 34

      Jane Austen and Genius (pages 389–401)

      Deidre Lynch

    2. Chapter 35

      Jane Austen's Periods (pages 402–412)

      Mary A. Favret

    3. Chapter 36

      Nostalgia (pages 413–421)

      Nicholas Dames

    4. Chapter 37

      Austen's European Reception (pages 422–433)

      Anthony Mandal

    5. Chapter 38

      Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel (pages 434–443)

      Edward Copeland

    6. Chapter 39

      Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas (pages 444–455)

      Katie Trumpener

    7. Chapter 40

      Sexuality (pages 456–466)

      Fiona Brideoake

    8. Chapter 41

      Jane Austen and Popular Culture (pages 467–477)

      Judy Simons

    9. Chapter 42

      Austenian Subcultures (pages 478–487)

      Mary Ann O'Farrell

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      Bibliography (pages 488–512)

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      Index (pages 513–537)

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