Table of Contents:
  • PART I : THE NOVEL AND THE WAR OF IDEAS
  • Sentimentalism : the radical inheritance
  • The Jacobin novel I : Revolution and reason
  • The Jacobin novel II : Caleb Williams and Hermsprong
  • The Anti-Jacobins
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • PART II : JANE AUSTEN
  • Seeing a meaning
  • the Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey
  • Sense and sensibility
  • Pride and prejudice
  • Mansfield Park
  • Emma
  • Persuasion and sanditon
  • Conclusion.