A Companion to Jane Austen

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

Claudia L. Johnson is Chair of the Department of English at Princeton University. Her previous books include Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (1988), Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995), and The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002), along with editions of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1998), Sense and Sensibility (2002), and Northanger Abbey (2003). Her forthcoming works include Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, tracing permutations of “Jane mania” from 1817 to the present, and Raising the Novel, which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture.

Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (2002, 2008), as well as several essays on Austen, and the co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (2002, 2006).

List of Figures	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
A Note to the Reader	p. xviii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
The Life and the Texts	p. 11
Jane Austen's Life and Letters	p. 13
The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality	p. 31
The Literary Marketplace	p. 41
Texts and Editions	p. 51
Jane Austen, Illustrated	p. 62
Reading the Texts	p. 79
Young Jane Austen: Author	p. 81
Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility	p. 91
The Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen's Uses of Enchantment	p. 101
Re: Reading Pride and Prejudice: "What think you of books?"	p. 112
The Missed Opportunities of Mansfi eld Park	p. 123
Emma: Word Games and Secret Histories	p. 133
Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning	p. 143
Sanditon and the Book	p. 153
Literary Genres and Genealogies	p. 163
Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind	p. 165
Narrative Technique: Austen and Her Contemporaries	p. 185
Time and Her Aunt	p. 195
Austen's Realist Play	p. 206
Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing	p. 216
Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling, and Print Culture	p. 226
The Gothic Austen	p. 237
Political, Social, and Cultural Worlds	p. 249
From Politics to Silence: Jane Austen's Nonreferential Aesthetic	p. 251
The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars	p. 261
Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution	p. 272
Feminisms	p. 282
Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park	p. 292
Jane Austen and the Nation	p. 304
Religion	p. 314
Family Matters	p. 323
Austen and Masculinity	p. 332
The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodifi cation of Sociability	p. 343
Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in Austen's Narratives	p. 355
Austen's Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine	p. 366
Jane Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory, and Enculturation	p. 377
Reception and Reinvention	p. 389
Jane Austen and Genius	p. 391
Jane Austen's Periods	p. 402
Nostalgia	p. 413
Austen's European Reception	p. 422
Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel	p. 434
Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas	p. 444
Sexuality	p. 456
Jane Austen and Popular Culture	p. 467
Austenian Subcultures	p. 478
Bibliography	p. 488
Index	p. 513
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