Corporate romanticism : liberalism, justice, and the novel / by Stout, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Personification and its discontents -- The pursuit of guilty things: corporate actors, collective actions, and romantic abstraction -- The one and the manor: on being, doing, and deserving in Mansfield Park -- Castes of exception: tradition and the public sphere in The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner -- Nothing personal: the decapitations of character in A tale of two cities -- Not world enough: easement, externality, and the edges of justice (Caleb Williams) -- Epilogue: Everything counts (Frankenstein).…”
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A child of one's own : parental stories / by Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Changing conceptions -- Surrogates and other mothers -- Reproductive choice: a prehistory -- Foundling fathers and mothers -- Childlessness: Euripides' Medea -- A tale of two parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations -- Finding a life: George Eliot's Silas Marner -- His and hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- At all costs: George Moore's Esther Waters -- Between parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew -- Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 'I had Barbara': women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.…”

Jane Austen : a brief life / by Stafford, Fiona J.

Table of Contents: “…Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; contents; introduction; childhood 1775-87; early writing 1787-92; the true art of letter-writing 1793-7; bath 1798-1804; from home to home 1804-9; sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice 1809-13; mansfield park and emma 1813-15; persuasion 1816; 'winchester races' 1817; remembering jane; afterword; notes; bibliography.…”
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Jane Austen, feminism and fiction / by Kirkham, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma; Part Four: Feminist Criticism of Society and Literature in the Later Novels; 17. …”
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On the Horizon of World Literature : Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China / by Sun, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Between the Theater and the Novel: Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North -- Coda.…”
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Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness : manners and morals from Locke to Austen / by Davidson, Jenny

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; introduction The revolution in manners in eighteenth-century prose; chapter one Hypocrisy and the servant problem; chapter two Gallantry, adultery and the principles of politeness; chapter three Revolutions in female manners; chapter four Hypocrisy and the novel i: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded; chapter five Hypocrisy and the novel ii: a modest question about Mansfield Park; coda Politeness and its costs; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”
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Jane Austen in a social context /

Table of Contents: “…Fergus -- "Real solemn history" and social history / Christopher Kent -- Jane Austen and the position of women / David Monaghan -- Jane Austen and the problem of leisure / Jane Nardin -- Mansfield Park : the revolt of the "feminine" woman / Leroy W. …”

Western civilization and the academy /

Table of Contents: “…Koons -- Classics and not hog-wash / Anthony O'Hear -- Democracy's hope : Fanny Price in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Norma Thompson.…”

Jane Austen's men : rewriting masculinity in the romantic era / by Ailwood, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…"You will make him everything": Masculine Redemption in Mansfield Park -- Chapter Five. "A disgrace to the name of man": Emma, the National Tale and the Historical Novel -- Chapter Six. …”

The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays / by Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975

Table of Contents: “…Eliot's politics -- The immortality of ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think" -- The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.…”

Resisting the marriage plot : faith and female agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft / by Fisher, Dalene Joy, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…A Fragment (1798) -- "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) -- "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) -- "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853) -- Conclusion: "Attracting the Eyes of Men".…”

From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad : Essays Collected in Memory of James T. Hillhouse. by Rathburn, Robert C.

Table of Contents: “…James Theodore Hillhouse; Table of Contents; The Makers of the British Novel; The Background of Mansfield Park; Critical Realism in Northanger Abbey; Scott's Redgauntlet; History on the Hustings: Bulwer-Lytton's Historical Novels of Politics; Thackeray, a Novelist by Accident; A Note on Dickens' Humor; Self-Help and the Helpless in Bleak House; Form and Substance in the Brontë Novels; Charlotte Brontë's 'New' Gothic; Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Trollope's Orley Farm: Artistry Manqué; Anthony Trollope: the Palliser Novels; George Eliot's Originals; Middlemarch, George Eliot's Masterpiece.…”
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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment / by Knox-Shaw, Peter, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on chronology; CHAPTER 1 Auspices; CHAPTER 2 Pride and Prejudice, a politics of the picturesque; CHAPTER 3 Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians; CHAPTER 4 Sense and Sensibility and the philosophers; CHAPTER 5 Diffraction; CHAPTER 6 Mansfield Park: charting the religious revival; CHAPTER 7 Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty; CHAPTER 8 Persuasion: light on an old genre; CHAPTER 9 Sanditon and speculation; Select bibliography; UNPUBLISHED SOURCES; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.…”
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Jane Austen's literary manuscripts : a study of the novelist's development through the surviving papers / by Southam, B. C.

Table of Contents: “…Theories of Composition for Mansfield Park and Emma; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; W.…”
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The lost books of Jane Austen / by Barchas, Janine

Table of Contents: “…Young Heman's summer in Paris -- Selling with paintings: a curious history of the cheap prestige reprint -- Vignette VI. Lady Isabella's Mansfield Park -- Pinking Jane Austen: the turn to "chick lit" -- Vignette VII. …”
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Child of one's own : parental stories / by Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Changing conceptions -- Surrogates and other mothers -- Reproductive choice: a prehistory -- Foundling fathers and mothers -- Childlessness: Euripides' Medea -- A tale of two parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations -- Finding a life: George Eliot's Silas Marner -- His and hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- At all costs: George Moore's Esther Waters -- Between parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew -- Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 'I had Barbara': women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.…”
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An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting : with proper rules for the exercise of that pleasant art / by Collier, Jane, 1715-1755

Table of Contents: “…Later satires on the art of tormenting : From Maria Edgeworth, An essay on the noble science of self-justification, 1795 ; From Frances Burney, The wanderer, 1814 ; From Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814.…”

The literary channel : the inter-national invention of the novel /

Table of Contents: “…The eighteenth-century novel / Mary Helen Mc Murran -- Sentimental bonds and revolutionary characters: Richardson's Pamela in England and France / Lynn Festa -- Sentimental communities / Margaret Cohen -- Transnational sympathies, imaginary communities / April Alliston -- Phantom states: Cleveland, The recess, and the origins of historical fiction / Richard Maxwell -- Gender, empire, and epistolarity: from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park to Marie-Th⥲ᥳe Humbert's La montagne des signaux / Fran㯩se Lionnet -- The (dis)locations of romantic nationalism: Shelley, Sta襬, and the home-schooling of monsters / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- "An occult and immoral tyranny": the novel, the police, and the agent provocateur / Carolyn Dever -- Comparative Sapphism / Sharon Marcus -- From literary channel to narrative chunnel / Emily Apter.…”

Sacred engagements : interfaith marriage, religious toleration, and the British novel, 1750-1820 / by Conway, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Novel Intimacies -- 1 Religious Toleration and Interfaith Marriage, 1640-1720 -- 2 Sir Charles Grandison's Religious Disturbances -- 3 Frances Brooke's Civil Disputes -- 4 Elizabeth Inchbald among the Cisalpines -- 5 Maria Edgeworth's Jewish Enlightenment -- Conclusion: Mansfield Park Closes Its Gates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z…”
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Sacred engagements : interfaith marriage, religious toleration, and the British novel, 1750-1820 / by Conway, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Novel Intimacies -- 1 Religious Toleration and Interfaith Marriage, 1640-1720 -- 2 Sir Charles Grandison's Religious Disturbances -- 3 Frances Brooke's Civil Disputes -- 4 Elizabeth Inchbald among the Cisalpines -- 5 Maria Edgeworth's Jewish Enlightenment -- Conclusion: Mansfield Park Closes Its Gates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z…”
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