Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-303) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form: the case of Jane Austen / Mary Poovey -- "A model of female excellence": Anne Elliot, Persuasion, and the vindication of a Richardsonian ideal of the female character / E.B. Moon -- Why women didn't like romanticism: the views of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley / Anne K. Mellor -- Gendering rooms: domestic architecture and literary acts / Cynthia Wall -- Community and cognition in Pride and prejudice / William Deresiewicz -- Mansfield Park: dismantling Pemberley / Jo Alyson Parker -- Colloquy / Ivor Morris -- Emma / Paula Byrne -- "Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick & wicked": Persuasion / Gloria Sybil Gross -- Sense and sensibility and Mansfield Park: "at once both tragedy and comedy" / Patricia Menon -- An excellent heart: Sense and sensibility / Emily Auerbach -- Learning the art of charity in Emma / Sarah Emsley -- Chronology.
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