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Foreword
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Harold Bloom |
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Introduction
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Susannah Carson |
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Why We Read Jane Austen: Young Persons in Interesting Situations
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Susanna Clarke |
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The Radiance of Jane Austen
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Eudora Welty |
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Six Reasons to Read Jane Austen
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Rebecca Mead |
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Jane Austen: The Six Novels
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E. M. Forster |
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A Life Among the Manuscripts: Following in the Steps of Dr. Chapman
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Brian Southam |
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Reading Northanger Abbey
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Susannah Carson |
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On Sense and Sensibility
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Ian Watt |
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From "Why We Read Jane Austen"
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Lionel Trilling |
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Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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Force of Love: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Martin Amis |
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The Nerds of Pride and Prejudice
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Benjamin Nugent |
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Austen Portrays a Small World with Humor and Detachment
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J. B. Priestley |
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Pride and Prejudice and the Mysteries of Life
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Anna Quindlen |
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A Note on Jane Austen
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C. S. Lewis |
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Jane Austen and the Good Life
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Louis Auchincloss |
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What Became of Jane Austen?
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Kingsley Amis |
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From "Jane Austen: Mansfield Park"
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A. S. ByattIgnês Sodré |
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The Modest Art of Altering Life
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Alain De Botton |
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Let Others Deal with Misery
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Fay Weldon |
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Fanny Was Right: Jane Austen as Moral Guide
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James Collins |
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Why I Like Jane Austen
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Janet Todd |
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Why Do We Read Jane Austen?
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Jone Wiltshire |
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The Girls Who Don't Say "Whoo!"
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Amy Heckerling |
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Reading and Rereading Emma
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David Lodge |
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From "Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen"
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Lionel Trilling |
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The Perfections of Jane Austen
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Eva Brann |
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From "The Myth of Limitation"
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Donale Greene |
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Terrible Jane
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Amy Bloom |
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From "Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion"
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Harold Bloom |
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Some Thoughts on the Craft of Austen's Persuasion
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Diane Johnson |
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Nothing but Himself
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Margot Livesey |
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Jane Austen at Sixty
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Virginia Woole |
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Beautiful Minds
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Jay Mcinerney |
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Notes
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Contributor Biographies
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287 |
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Permissions Acknowledgments
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293 |