A Companion to Jane Austen by Johnson, Claudia L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Endorsements Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page List of Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations A Note to the Reader Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Life and the Texts

1 Jane Austen’s Life and Letters

I II

2 The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality 3 The Literary Marketplace

Overview of the Marketplace Editions and Costs Earnings Reviews and Readership

4 Texts and Editions

The Earliest Editions, Britain and America, 1811–33 The Bentley Years, 1832–93 The Growing Market 1840–1923 R. W. Chapman and the Oxford Edition, 1923 The Rise of the Student Edition The Cambridge Edition

5 Jane Austen, Illustrated

Part II: Reading the Texts

6 Young Jane Austen: Author 7 Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility 8 The Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen’s Uses Of Enchantment

“. . . Her Chief Profit Was In Wonder” The Lady Vanishes

9 Re: Reading Pride and Prejudice: “What think you of books?”

Volume I. Reading the Markets Volume II. Prejudice and First Impressions Volume III. Romance and Reading

10 The Missed Opportunities of Mansfield Park

I II III

11 Emma: Word Games and Secret Histories 12 Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning 13 Sanditon and the Book

Part III: Literary Genres and Genealogies

14 Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind

Northanger Abbey: Missing Similes Sense and Sensibility: Broken Synecdoche Abstraction and physical contacts: Pride and Prejudice The Hyperbolists: Mansfield Park Riddles and Refreshment: the Art of Emma The Mirror and the Nut: Persuasion

15 Narrative Technique: Austen and Her Contemporaries 16 Time and Her Aunt

I II III

17 Austen’s Realist Play

I II III

18 Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing 19 Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling, and Print Culture

Communicating Sensibility: The Social Effects of Print Culture Austen on Print and Sensibility: The Letters and The Novels Ways of Reading: Austen, Feeling and the Uses of Books Conclusion: Conversation and the Possibilities of Print

20 The Gothic Austen

When is a House a Castle? No Joking Matter The Unthinkable

Part IV: Political, Social, and Cultural Worlds

21 From Politics to Silence: Jane Austen’s Nonreferential Aesthetic 22 The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars

I II

23 Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution 24 Feminisms

“Feminist” Austen Post-Revolutionary Gender Politics Postfeminist Austen?

25 Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park

Body Trade Conclusion

26 Jane Austen and the Nation 27 Religion 28 Family Matters 29 Austen and Masculinity 30 The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodification of Sociability

Shops Things Jewelry Clothes Food Conclusion

31 Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in Austen’s Narratives

At Gray’s in Sackville Street: A Toothpick Case and a Negotiation Pineapples in Gloucestershire The Windows of Bath The Work of Luxury in Austen’s Novels

32 Austen’s Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine

I II III

33 Jane Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory, and Enculturation

The Immortality of a Twelvemonth The Constancy of Siddons The Theatrical Reader

Part V: Reception and Reinvention

34 Jane Austen and Genius 35 Jane Austen’s Periods

Sleeping Beauty Periods upon Periods

36 Nostalgia 37 Austen’s European Reception

Translations Criticism Influence of Films and Screen Adaptations Conclusion

38 Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel 39 Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas

The Book Code Into the Glimmering World: Empire as Escape In the Bookstore: The Postcolonial Jane Austen

40 Sexuality 41 Jane Austen and Popular Culture 42 Austenian Subcultures

Bibliography Index

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