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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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On Jane Austen
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How Do We Love Jane Austen? Let Us Count the Ways
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Are You a Janeite?
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Do You Belong to the School of Gentle Jane?
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Do You Belong to the Ironic Jane School?
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Do You Belong to the Subversive Jane School?
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Part I
Early Life and Juvenilia
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Early Life and Family
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Steventon: The Austen Family
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Bringing Up Baby
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A Pruned Family Tree: Jane Austen's Immediate Family
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Life at the Steventon Rectory
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The Family Appearance
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"Cacoethes Scribendi": The Incurable Itch to Write
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The Abbey School
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Dancing Days and Juvenilia
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Highlights of the Juvenilia
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Authorial Apprenticeship and Ridiculous Novels
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The Loiterer
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Volume the First: Pulp Fiction
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Frederic and Elfrida: An Auspicious Debut
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Decapitations Are Us: Austen's Early Motif of Beheadings
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"My Hat, on Which My Principal Hopes of Happiness Depend"
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Volume the Second: "Sallies, Bonmots and Repartees"
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Love and Freindship
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The History of England
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Revolutions
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Volume the Third: Evelyn and Catherine, or The Bower
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Lady Susan
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Mrs. Leigh-Perrot: Austen's Brush with Incarceration and Other Scandals
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A Recipe for Syllabub
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Tom Lefroy, Harris Bigg-Wither, and Other Suitors
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Leaving Steventon
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Bath
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Mr. Austen Exits Life's Pulpit
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Regina Barreca: Jane Austen as "Bad Girl"
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The Watsons
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The Marriage Plot
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Part II
Major Works
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Northanger Abbey
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Publication: A Fraught Road
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Rakes and Rattles
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"Learning to Love a Hyacinth"
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Joan Vredenburgh on Bath and General Tilney
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The Nature of Gothic Novels
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David Riede on Jane Austen and Romanticism
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"A Neighborhood of Voluntary Spies"
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A Very Respectable Man, Though His Name Was Richard
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John Thorpe's Horse and Gig
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Henry Tilney's Knowledge of Muslin
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QUIZ: Letter Writing in the Novels
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John Thorpe and Henry Tilney on Mrs. Radcliffe
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Jim Buckley on General Tilney's Rumford Fireplace
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Money
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Average Income, England and Wales, 1803
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"The Tell-Tale Compression of the Pages"
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Sense and Sensibility
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The Novels of Sensibility
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The Dangers of Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility: A Checklist
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James Battersby on Jane Austen and the Eighteenth Century
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Georgian London
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Harriet Walter on Fanny Dashwood
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Fanny Dashwood and King Lear's Daughters
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QUIZ: Who Said That? Great Lines from Jane Austen's Novels
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Elinor Dashwood: Governor of Her Own Feelings
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The Madness of Marianne
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Cowper and Crabbe
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Lucy Steele
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Sexy Men
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Weddings
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Famous First Sentence
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The Publication History of Pride and Prejudice
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Primogeniture and Entailment
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Accomplishments and Eligibility
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Veronica Leahy on Conduct Literature
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Walking
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QUIZ: Do Appearances Deceive?
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Fay Weldon on Jane Austen
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Clergymen: Ridiculous and Sublime
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Mr. Bennet
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The Liveliness of Your Mind
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Darcy and Pemberley
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Jane Bennet
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Elizabeth Bennet
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Mary Bennet
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Mansfield Park
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The Unbearable Loneliness of Being Fanny Price
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The Servant Problem
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Mark Conroy on Jane Austen's Popularity
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Chawton: An Intense Burst of Writing
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Anna Massey
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QUIZ: Food in Jane Austen
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
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Home Theatricals: Lovers' Vows
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Phoebe Spinrad on Mothers and Fathers in Austen's Novels
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The British Empire
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Fanny Wars
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Squalor in Portsmouth
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Emma
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"Handsome, Clever, and Rich"
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Joan Wolf on the Regency Period
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Judith Martin: "Miss Manners" on Jane Austen
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Who Is Vulgar and How to Avoid Vulgarity
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Ten Surefire Ways to Be Vulgar
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Mrs. Goddard's School
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A Fling at the Slave Trade
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"Caro Sposo"
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On Becoming a Governess
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Is Emma Gay?
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Why Does Frank Churchill Change His Name?
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What Is a Natural Child?
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Edith Lank on Jane Austen
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Edith Lank: A Theory on Harriet Smith's Parentage
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Mr. Woodhouse
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Phyllida Law on Mrs. Bates
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Prunella Scales on Miss Bates
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Nieces and Nephews
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Persuasion
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Marlene Longenecker on Jane Austen and Feminism
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Quiz: Reading and Readers in Jane Austen
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Jan Fergus on Whiners and Complainers
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Sir Walter Elliot
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Class
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The Baronetage and the Peerage
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Mrs. Smith
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Jane Smiley on Jane Austen
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The Famous Final Sentence of Persuasion
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Sanditon: The Final Year
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Nineteenth-Century Wellville
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Hypochondriacs
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The Circulating Library
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Quiz: Illnesses and Hypochondria
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Sir Edward Denham, Bart
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What Jane Austen Earned from her Books During Her Lifetime
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Jane Austen's Illness and Death
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Cassandra's Conflagration
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Some Dissenting Views on Jane Austen
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John McAleer on Ancestry and Biography
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Part III
The Legacy
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Jane Austen in the Twentieth Century
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The Janeites
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Jennifer Cruisie on Jane Austen as the Mother of the Modern Romance Novel
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Soap Opera Divas on Jane Austen
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Alton Abbey and Jane Austen Retreats
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Elsa Solender on the Jane Austen Society of North America
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All About JASNA
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The Annual General Meeting of JASNA
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Cyber Jane: Austen Sites on the Internet
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Dramatizations of the Novels
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Emily Auerbach: The Courage to Write--Women Novelists and Poets
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Tobacco Cards: Jane Austen Is Gaining on Ty Cobb
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Jane Austen Books: A Bookstore
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Film Adaptations
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Linda Mizejewski on Austen and the Woman's Film
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Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield on Jane Austen in Hollywood
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Feature Films and Video Adaptations: A Selection
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Douglas McGrath on His Film Emma
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Continuations, Sequels, and Spin-offs
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Julia Barrett on Jane Austen Sequels
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Stephanie Barron on Jane Austen as Detective
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Sequels and Spin-offs: A Select List
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Bibliography
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Barry Roth, Bibliographer of Jane Austen Studies
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Select Bibliography
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Periodicals
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Interviews
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285 |
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Answers to Quizzes
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Index
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Illustration Credits
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