Table of Contents:
  • HISTORICIZING AUSTEN
  • History, silence, and "The trial of Jane Leigh Perrot"
  • The picturesque, the real, and the consumption of Jane Austen
  • Why Jane Austen is not Frances Burney: probability, possibility, and romantic counterhegemony
  • READING THE HISTORICAL AUSTEN
  • Lady Susan and the failure of Austen's early published novels
  • Narrative incompetence in Northanger Abbey
  • Jane Austen's future shock
  • Nostalgia in Emma
  • The body in persuasion and sanditon.