The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	A 'Companion'
	Design and Scope
	Works Cited
Part I: Jane Austen's Works
1. Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction
	From 'Susan' to Northanger Abbey: Composition, Publication, and Early Reception
	Complicating Northanger Abbey: Modern Critical Reception
	Doubly Critical: Northanger Abbey's Metafictional Functions
	Notes
	Works Cited
2. Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon
	Sense and Sensibility in Short
	'Sense?' 'Sensibility?'
	From Epistolary to Third Person
	The Sisters
	Inheritance, Money, and Power
	Dull Marriages, Dark Doings, and a Conclusion That Fails to Satisfy Some Readers
	Note
	Works Cited
3. Pride and Prejudice: Not Altogether 'light & bright & sparkling'
	Masterplot and Data-field
	Mr & Mrs Bennet, née Miss Gardiner
	'Not Sensible': Mr Collins' Sensitivity, Miss Lucas's Sense, Mrs Collins' Sensibility
	He-Entail and its She-Discontents
	The Indexed Historical World: Histrionic Evil and Wretched Events
	Edgy Advantage: Elizabeth Bennet, Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy
	"What say you, Mary?"
	Notes
	Work Cited
4. The Novelty of Mansfield Park
	Fanny's Recessive Disposition
	The Narrator and Her Protagonist
	The Place of Antigua
	Notes
	Works Cited
5. Emma, a Heroine
	Notes
	Works Cited
6. The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion
	Critical Overview
	Friendship in Persuasion
	Notes
	Works Cited
7. The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen's Letters
	Notes
	Works Cited
8. 'Setting at Naught All Rules of Probable or Possible': Jane Austen's 'Juvenilia'
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part II: Historicising Austen: A Sampling
9. Touching upon Jane Austen's Politics
	Note
	Works Cited
10. 'A Picture of Real Life and Manners'? Austen, Burney, and Edgeworth
	Notes
	Works Cited
11. Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel
	Notes
	Works Cited
12. From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen's Reading
	Notes
	Works Cited
13. Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian
	Notes
	Works Cited
14. From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist Culture, and Narrative
	Notes
	Works Cited
15. 'Bringing Her Business Forward': Jane Austen and Political Economy
	Reading and Judging Value
	Forging Currency, Forging Trust
	A Question of Improvement
	Notes
	Works Cited
16. Material Goods in Austen's Novels
	Notes
	Works Cited
17. Jane Austen and Music
	Notes
	Works Cited
18. 'All the Egotism of an Invalid': Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austen's Sanditon
	Notes
	Works Cited
19. Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past
	Notes
	Works Cited
20. They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Austen
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part III: Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling
21. Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the Novels
	Introduction
	The Author's Voice
	Romantic Voice Culture
	Austen's Representation of Character Speech
	Works Cited
22. Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen's Catch and Release
	Notes
	Works Cited
23. Austen's Literary Time
	Notes
	Works Cited
24. Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism
	Introduction
	Reading Austen's Men
		Austen and Her Early Readers
		Modern Interpretations
	Masculine Subjectivity: A New Approach to Interpretation
	Austen's Men as Cultural Icons
	Austen's Men, Romantic Love and Romanticism: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion
	New Directions
	Works Cited
25. Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-Sacrifice
	Notes
	Works Cited
26. 'Queer Austen' and Northanger Abbey
	Austen, Queer Theory, and Literary History
	Queer Northanger Abbey
	Notes
	Works Cited
27. 'A Perfectly Swell Romance': Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in Analogy Criticism
	Notes
	Works Cited
28. Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu's La Famille Elliot (1821)
	La Famille Elliot's Reception History
	Free-Indirect Discourse in Persuasion and La Famille Elliot
	World Literary Space and Jane Austen's Reception Histories
	Notes
	Works Cited
29. Jane Austen and the Social Sciences
	Evolutionary Studies
	Theory of Mind
	Austen and Social Science Methodology
	Austen and Attachment Studies
	Jane Austen, Social Scientist
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part IV: Austen's Communities: A Sampling
30. Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line: 'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'
	Notes
	Works Cited
31. 'It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together': JAS and JASNA
	Introduction
	Jane Austen Society
	Jane Austen Society of North America
	Cross-Continental Connections
	Representations in Academic Writing & Popular Culture
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Works Cited
32. Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia Reproduction
	Why Is Jane Austen On Stage?
	Staging Austen
		For Whom the Bell Tolls: Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice
		Of Karaoke and Bonnets
		Emma, Interrupted
	Making Austen Musical: From Burrows to Taylor to Today
		Thoroughly Modern Emma
		Cinderella for a New Age
	'Fighting for the Future': Improvised Austen
	Coda: Some Concluding Thoughts
	Notes
	Works Cited
33. 'You do not know her or her heart': Minor Character Elaboration in Contemporary Austen Spin-Off Fiction
	Notes
	Works Cited
34. Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand
	Lady Jane
	A Date with a Celeb
	Branding Jane
	Notes
	Works Cited
35. Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis
	Works Cited
36. Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities of Colour
	Works Cited
37. Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen Fanfiction
	Works Cited
Part V: Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling
38. Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-first Century
	Prelude: 'First Impressions'
	Case 1: Mapping
	Case 2: Pitching
	Case 3: Financial Dossiers
	Case 4: Speaking Objects
	Case 5: Documents
	Conclusion
39. Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and Films
	Beginning the Class
	Close Reading
	Close Looking
	Outcomes
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Works Cited
	Appendix: Resources
40. Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen Online
	Introduction: The Business of Bicentenaries
	Texts in Context: Recreating Austen's World
	Making Jane Austen: Biography, Adaptation, Myth
	Global Jane Austen
	Conclusion
	CODA
	Notes
	Works Cited
41. Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White Privilege
	Method and Theory
	Austen's Epistemic Injustice, Beyond White Privilege
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
42. Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and Secondary Instructors
	Addressing Privilege
	Points of Connection
	Notes
	Works Cited
43. Austen's Belief in Education: Sōseki, Nogami, and Sensibility
	Natsume Sōseki as a Marker of Modernity
	Women's Education and Nogami Yaeko
	Nogami's Creative Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
44. Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program
	Austen in the Southern Part of Heaven
	JASP and Its Format
	JASP Content/Themes
	Pedagogy, Teachers, and Education Advocacy
	The Anatomy of the JASPer
	'Who Could Be in Doubt of What Followed?'
	Notes
	Works Cited
Index