Introduction: Austen and comedy / Erin M. Goss -- Austen, philosophy, and comic stylistics / Eric Lindstrom -- Jane Austen: comedy against happiness / David Sigler -- "Open-hearted": persuasion and the cultivation of good humor / Sean Dempsey -- After the laughter: seeking perfect happiness in Emma / Soha Chung -- The comic visions of Emma Woodhouse / Timothy Erwin -- On Austen, comedy, and future possibility / Erin M. Goss -- Lost in the comedy: Austen's paternalistic men and the problem of accountability / Michael Kramp -- Sense, sensibility, sea monsters, and carnivalesque caricature / Misty Krueger.
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