Jane Austen's possessions and dispossessions : the significance of objects / by Byrne, Sandie

Table of Contents: “…Austen possessions and dispossessions -- Sense and Sensibility: giving and taking -- Pride and Prejudice: general impressions -- Mansfield Park: benevolence and gratitude -- Emma: the obliged and the obligated -- Persuasion: loss and retrieval -- Northanger Abbey: signs taken for wonders -- The early writing and fragments -- The land and the big house.…”
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Recreating Jane Austen / by Wiltshire, John

Table of Contents: “…Imagining Jane Austen's life -- Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless -- An Englishwoman's constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare -- From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion -- Pride and prejudice, love and recognition -- The genius and the facilitating environment.…”
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Recreating Jane Austen / by Wiltshire, John

Table of Contents: “…Imagining Jane Austen's life -- Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless -- An Englishwoman's constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare -- From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion -- Pride and prejudice, love and recognition -- The genius and the facilitating environment.…”
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Later manuscripts / by Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Table of Contents: “…Hunter of Norwich ; Letters on Fiction to Anna Lefroy ; Plan of a Novel, according to hints from various quaters ; Opinions of Mansfield Park ; Opinions of Emma -- Poems and Chardes : Poems ; Charades.…”

Women's domestic activity in the Romantic-period novel, 1770-1820 : dangerous occupations/ by Morrissey, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Needlework in Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- 3. Musical Accomplishment in Frances Burney's The Wanderer -- 4. …”

Victorian theatricals : from menageries to melodrama /

Table of Contents: “…Mansfield Park -- Vanity fair -- Acting proverbs -- The sorrows of Satan -- Nicholas Nickleby -- Far from the maddening crowd -- An evening at a Whitechapel Gaff -- The enchanted isle -- Jason in Colchis -- The colleen bawn -- The business of matrimony -- The factory lad -- Society -- The mikado -- The second Mrs. …”
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Later manuscripts / by Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Table of Contents: “…Hunter of Norwich ; Letters on Fiction to Anna Lefroy ; Plan of a Novel, according to hints from various quaters ; Opinions of Mansfield Park ; Opinions of Emma -- Poems and Chardes : Poems ; Charades.…”
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Austen's oughts : judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury / by Valihora, Karen, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Empiricism through the prism of aesthetics -- The silence of Ajax: Hume's moral sublime -- Adam Smith's judgment of judgment -- Richardson's Clarissa and eyes of the world -- The orchestration of spectacle in Sense and Sensibility -- Sir Joshua Reynolds and the discourses of art -- Pemberley's hall of mirrors: Austen and Reynolds -- The impartial spectator of Mansfield Park.…”

Those elegant decorums : the concept of propriety in Jane Austen's novels. by Nardin, Jane, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…How to read Jane Austen -- The concept of propriety -- Propriety as duty to society and self: Sense and sensibility -- Propriety as a test of character: Pride and prejudice -- Propriety and the education of Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey -- Status, work, and propriety in Mansfield Park -- Egotism and propriety in Emma -- Propriety and the exception individual: Persuasion.…”
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Moral Taste : Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / by Garson, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…The discourse of taste in Waverley -- A room with a viewer : the evolution of a Victorian topos -- Resources and performance : Mansfield Park and Emma -- The improvement of the estate : J.C. …”
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Jane Austen and the state of the nation / by Craig, Sheryl, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jane Austen's legacy -- Juvenilia: a liberal conservative -- Sense and Sensibility: poor law reform -- Pride and Prejudice: the speenhamland system -- Northanger Abbey and the Watsons: the restriction act -- Mansfield Park: the condition of England -- Emma: William Pitt's utopia -- Persuasion: the post-Waterloo crash -- Sanditon: a political novel.…”

Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel / by Garson, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…The discourse of taste in Waverley -- A room with a viewer : the evolution of a Victorian topos -- Resources and performance : Mansfield Park and Emma -- The improvement of the estate : J.C. …”
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Caught in the act : theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel / by Litvak, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Infection of acting : theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park -- Governess as actress : the inscription of theatricality in Jane Eyre -- Scenes of writing, scenes of instruction : authority and subversion in Villette -- Dickens and sensationalism -- Poetry and theatricality in Daniel Deronda -- Making a scene : Henry James's theater of embarrassment -- Actress, monster, novelist : figuration and counterplot in The Tragic muse.…”

Jane Austen and modernization : sociological readings / by Thompson, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jane Austen and Modernization -- 2. Authority in Mansfield Park and Persuasion: Durkheim, Weber, and Parsons -- 3. …”

Recreating Jane Austen / by Wiltshire, John

Table of Contents: “…Imagining Jane Austen's life -- Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless -- An Englishwoman's constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare -- From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion -- Pride and Prjudice, love and recognition -- The genius and the facilitating environment -- Notes -- A note onfilms cited -- Bibbography -- Index.…”
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Caught in the act : theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel / by Litvak, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Infection of acting : theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park -- Governess as actress : the inscription of theatricality in Jane Eyre -- Scenes of writing, scenes of instruction : authority and subversion in Villette -- Dickens and sensationalism -- Poetry and theatricality in Daniel Deronda -- Making a scene : Henry James's theater of embarrassment -- Actress, monster, novelist : figuration and counterplot in The Tragic muse.…”
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Jane Austen's possessions and dispossessions : the significance of objects / by Byrne, Sandie, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Austen possessions and dispossessions -- Sense and sensibility: giving and taking -- Pride and prejudice: general impressions -- Mansfield Park: everything has its price -- Emma: the obliged and the obligated -- Persuasion: loss and retrieval -- Northanger Abbey: signs taken for wonders -- The early writing and fragments -- Juvenilia -- Lady Susan -- The Watsons -- Sanditon -- The land and the big house -- Conclusion.…”

Incest and the English novel, 1684-1814 / by Pollak, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Modernity, incest, and eighteenth-century narrative -- Incest and its contingencies : debates in Britain from the Reformation through the eighteenth century -- Beyond incest : gender and the politics of transgression in Aphra Behn's Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister -- Guarding the succession of the (E)state : incest and the dangers of representation in Delarivier Manley's The new Atalantis -- Moll Flanders, incest, and the structure of exchange -- Ingesting incest : maternity, textuality, and the problem of origins -- Incest and liberty : Mansfield park.…”

Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster / by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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Screening the gothic / by Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Gothic revenants : a tale of three Hamlets -- Putting the gothic in : Clarissa, Sense and sensibility, Mansfield Park, and The time machine -- Taking the gothic out : 'tis pity she's a whore, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The woman in white, and Lady Audley's secret -- Fragmenting the gothic : Jane Eyre and Dracula -- Gothic and the family : The mummy returns, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, and The lord of the rings : The fellowship of the ring.…”
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