Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on Texts Part I. England Chapter 1. Words, Names, Persons, and Places Chapter 2. Names as History: Invasion, Migration, War, and Conflict Chapter 3. Civil War, Ruins, and the Conscience of the Rich Part II. Names Chapter 4. Naming People: First Names, Nicknames, Titles, and Rank Chapter 5. Titles, Status, and Surnames: Austen's Great Surname Matrix Chapter 6. Personal Names (First Names and Surnames) in the "Steventon" Novels Chapter 7. Personal Names in the "Chawton" Novels Part III. Places Chapter 8. Humans Making and Naming a Landscape Chapter 9. Placing the Places Chapter 10. Counties, Towns, Villages, Estates: Real and Imaginary Places in the "Steventon" Novels Chapter 11. Real and Imaginary Places in the "Chawton" Novels Conclusion Notes Index

About the Author

Margaret Doody is the John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of many books, including the Aristotle Detective series, the first three of which are available in paperback from the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"A brilliant, provocative, and important book. Doody has marshaled a truly unprecedented array of narrative material regarding names, places, and plotting culled from a dazzlingly expansive reading of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels-as well as books on aesthetics, local history, and the English countryside. The result is a uniquely illuminating and enjoyable book that teaches us to think about Austen's artistry in a undamentally new way." (Claudia L. Johnson, uthor of Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures)