Jane Austen

Rank and state, church and clergy, marriage, Jane Austen's own convictions: a historian explores.

Acknowledgements

xi

Prologue

1

(8)

Illusion and Reality

9

(10)

A Didactic Novelist?

19

(8)

Materials

27

(17)

The archive

32

(1)

The letters of Jane Austen

32

(7)

The juvenilia

39

(5)

Chronology

44

(11)

Cassandra's evidence

44

(2)

The evidence of the Letters

46

(4)

The use of almanacs

50

(2)

1800--1810

52

(3)

Prelude to the Novels

55

(3)

Northanger Abbey

58

(7)

Sense and Sensibility

65

(9)

Pride and Prejudice

74

(11)

Mansfield Park

85

(12)

The poor relation

85

(3)

The play within the play

88

(1)

The plot of Mansfield Park

89

(8)

Emma

97

(13)

The two levels

97

(6)

Mr Woodhouse

103

(2)

Harriet Smith

105

(1)

The denouement

106

(4)

Persuasion

110

(9)

The two levels

110

(1)

The persuasion

111

(2)

The story

113

(2)

Lyme

115

(1)

The denouement

116

(3)

Church and Clergy

119

(32)

The Church in the eighteenth century

119

(3)

Church music

122

(1)

Music in parish churches

123

(3)

Jane Austen and the Evangelicals

126

(6)

Sunday travelling

132

(4)

Jane Austen's religion

136

(1)

The clergy in the novels

137

(14)

Rank and Status

151

(16)

Emma's snobbery

151

(2)

Equality and hierarchy

153

(5)

Equality in Pride and Prejudice

158

(1)

Money: Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility

158

(1)

Pride and Prejudice and the equality of gentlemen

159

(1)

Mansfield Park, Emma and women

160

(4)

Rank and status in Persuasion

164

(3)

Marriage in the Novels

167

(25)

Marriage in esse

168

(5)

A romantic view of marriage: Marianne Dashwood and Elizabeth Bennet

173

(5)

Marriage in principle: Sir Thomas Bertram's view

178

(2)

Lady Bertram's view of marriage

180

(1)

Miss Crawford's views on marriage

181

(2)

Mr and Mrs George Knightley

183

(3)

Persuasion

186

(3)

The wooing of Fanny Knight

189

(3)

Convictions and the Moral Code

192

(9)

Epilogue: Reflections on the Feminism of Jane Austen

201

(6)

Appendix of Dates

207

(2)

Bibliographical References

209

(6)

Index

215

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