Table of Contents

Part I. Some Backgrounds: Introduction; 1. Jane Austen's nineteenth-century critics: Walter Scott to Henry James John Halperin; 2. From the Iliad to Jane Austen via The Rape of the Lock Reuben A. Brower; 3. Jane Austen and one of her contemporaries Stuart M. Tave; 4. Jane Austen and her publishers Jane Aiken Hodge; Part II. Novels: 5. 'The pen of the contriver': the four fictions of Northanger Abbey Katrin Ristkok Burlin; 6. Admiring Pope no more than is proper: Sense and Sensibility Everett Zimmerman; 7. E pluribus unum: parts and whole in Pride and Prejudice Robert B. Heilman; 8. Pride and Prejudice: fiction's lasting novelty Karl Kroeber; 9. Mansfield Park: freedom and the family R. F. Brissenden; 10. The two voices of Fanny Price Kenneth L. Moler; 11. The objects in Mansfield Park Barbara Hardy; 12. The worlds of Emma: Jane Austen and Cowper John Halperin; 13. Emma: point counter point Joseph Wiesenfarth; 14. Persuasion: forms of estrangement A. Walton Litz; Part III. Views and Reviews: 15. Jane Austen and the novel Mary Lascelles; 16. Jane Austen's drawing room Marvin Mudrick; 17. Jane Austen's monsters Donald Greene.

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This volume brings together nineteen essays that marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen's birth and reflect twentieth-century critical attitudes.