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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE - IN LOVE, LOOK LOVE, LOOK FOR HAPPINESS
The Pursuit of Happiness
“Rage for Admiration”
“A Comfortable Home”
“No One Loved Better to Lead Than Maria”
Different Century, Same Mistakes
But We Have Plenty of Time for Happiness Later—Don’t We?
CHAPTER TWO - DON’T FALL FOR A FALSE IDEA OF LOVE
Jane Austen versus the Romantic Sensibility
The Cult of Sensibility
Liberation, Authenticity, Intensity
Charlotte Brontë Indicts Jane Austen
Women in Real Love (and Real Pain)
Love Is a Happy Thing
Before Happiness Was Boring
CHAPTER THREE - DON’T BE A TRAGIC HEROINE
Jane Austen’s Only Tragic Heroine?
A Brontë Heroine in a Jane Austen Novel
He Fooled Around and Fell in Love
The UnRomantic Ending
How It Might Turn Out Today
Marianne’s Mistakes
CHAPTER FOUR - DON’T LET CYNICISM STEAL YOUR HAPPY ENDING
The Psychology of Female Disappointment
“Darkened, yet Fancying Itself Light”
“Edward Seemed a Second Willoughby”
Relationships with (and without) “Superior Affection” and “Confidence”
Why It’s Wrong to “Settle”
CHAPTER FIVE - DO TAKE LOVE SERIOUSLY
Don’t See through Real Love
Sex and the City
“As Much Attached to Another Person As I Can Be to Any One”
Take Love Seriously
CHAPTER SIX - “RATIONAL HAPPINESS”
Jane Austen’s Art of Perfect Balance
“The Loveliest Medium”
“Rationally As Well As Passionately Loved”
How to Be “a Woman Worthy of Being Pleased”
The Genuine Article, and the Cheap Knock-Offs
CHAPTER SEVEN - WORK ON ALL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Jane Austen on Relationships and “Independence”
“Ruined by Early Independence”
Why Are “Relationships” Harder for Us?
Arbiters of Manners and Morals in Their Own Right
“Her Attention Was All for Men and Women”
CHAPTER EIGHT - “RIGHT CONDUCT,” “SELF-KNOWLEDGE,” AND “DELICACY TOWARDS THE ...
“Respect for Right Conduct Is Felt by Everybody”
The Personal Is Personal (and Never Mind the Political)
Just Plain Good Manners
CHAPTER NINE - FRIENDSHIP, THE SCHOOL OF LOVE
Better People Make Better Friends
“They Will Neither of Them Do the Other Any Good”
Undue Influence
“Her Ignorance Is Hourly Flattery”
Flattery versus “Equal Society”
CHAPTER TEN - DON’T FIND YOUR SOUL MATE
A Guy Who’s Really Great, Not Just “Great for Me”
He’s Just Her Type
Opposites Attract
“Hopes of Happiness from Dissimilarity of Temper”
What You Get in Love Is the Other Person
How Elizabeth Gets It Right the Second Time Around
CHAPTER ELEVEN - JANE AUSTEN’S SKELETON KEYS TO A MAN’S POTENTIAL
Seeing Men As They Really Are
“Principles” and “Temper”—the Non-Negotiables
Keep Your Eyes Open
The No. 1 Regency Ladies’ Detective Agency
From Elizabeth Bennet’s Hertfordshire to Our Global Village
Men of Real Quality
“There Goes a Temper Which Would Never Cause Pain!”
Beyond “the Sterling Good of Principle and Temper”: “Open” vs. “Reserved” Temperaments
“She Knew His Heart to Be Warm and His Temper Affectionate”
“Sense” and “Understanding,” “Talent” and “Taste”
His “Manners” and “Address”
“They Are All Clergymen Together”
ISO “The Most Charming Young Man in the World”
CHAPTER TWELVE - “HE HAD NO INTENTIONS AT ALL”
Discerning His Intentions—Whose Job Is It?
“I Do Not Suppose That He Ever Thinks of Me”
How You Can Tell What He Intends
How Come We Have to Do This Job?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ARE WE THE WEAKER SEX, AFTER ALL?
The Fidelity Gap
Women and “Attachment”
Male Attention: The Ultimate Intoxicant
“Some Zenlike Form of Nonattachment”
Is “Love” Different Things to Men and to Women?
Can a Man Be in Love Like a Woman?
Hogamous, Higamous
Men: Living in the Moment
Is Sauce for the Goose Really Sauce for the Gander?
We’re the Experts
We Look Before and After
For the Common Good
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - MEN WHO ARE “AFRAID OF COMMITMENT”
The Anatomy of a Villain: Callous Cruelty
The Picture of a Rake: Indulging Himself, Disregarding Your Feelings
Another Woman in the Picture?
Falling in Love, but at Different Paces
The Portrait of a Gentleman
Honesty Is Not Good Enough
The “Retarding Weight” of Jealousy
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - THE REAL, ORIGINAL “RULES”
Marriage, Jane Austen Heroine-Style
“But I Do Not Particularly Like Your Way of Getting Husbands”
Don’t Try Love on the Installment Plan
Don’t “Work on Your Relationship”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - ARRANGE YOUR OWN MARRIAGE IN THE MOST PLEASANT MANNER POSSIBLE
“Where Are the Great Guys?”
Trial Marriage, Jane Austen-Style
The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous to Know
Modern Love—Ideals and Realities
Regency-Era Social Life in the Twenty-first Century
Being a Jane Austen Heroine
APPENDIX - “THE JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER”—REALLY?
Art for the Sake of More than Art
Life Imitates Art
The Novel of Manners
An Era of Refinement and Improvement
Understanding That Culture Is Natural to Human Beings
Can We Have Love and Happiness?
The Feminist and the Sheikh
Love and Happiness in Balance
Acknowledgments
NOTES
INDEX
Your Guide to Happily Ever After Isn’t Over Just Yet…
Copyright Page
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