Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction: Second Edition

Table Of Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Feminism and Fiction 1694-1798

Introduction

Mary Astell to Catherine Macaulay: Women, Morals and Education

'A New Species of Writing'

Sir Charles Grandison

Women as Authors: 1788-98

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The 'Great Wollstonecraft Scandal' of 1798

Part Two: The Publication and Reception of Jane Austen's Novels, 1797-1818

The Feminist Controversy and the Received Biography

Residence in Bath

The Curious History of Mrs Ashton Dennis (M.A.D)

Scott's Review of Emma

Part Three: Allusion, Irony and Feminism in the Austen Novels

Comedy and the Austen Heroines: The Early Novels

Sense and Sensibility

Northanger Abbey

Pride and Prejudice

Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma

Part Four: Feminist Criticism of Society and Literature in the Later Novels

Mansfield Park

Emma

Persuasion and Sanditon

 Postscript: Jane Austen and the Critical Tradition

 Appendix: The Bath Theatre

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index