LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE:BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND
Chrondological Table
1 Character and Family Background
2 Religion
Jane Austen and the Clergy
Candour
3 Mysteries and Uncertainties
4 Juvenilia
Love and Freindship
Catharine
Intervening Word
PART TWO:LITERARY BACKGROUND
5 Augustan Sense and Sensibility
Johnson and Conservative Reason:‘Rasselas’
Johnson and the Art of the Novel
Cowper and sensibility
6 Literary Contemporaries:Isolation and Involvement
7 The Eighteenth-century Novel
Daniel Defoe,1660-1731
Jonathan swift,1667-1745
Henry Fielding,1707-54
Fanny Burney,1752-1840
8 The Arts and the social Order
Gilpin and the Picturesque
9 women in Life and Literature
The Predicament of the Jane Austen Heroine
PART THEREE:THE ART OF JANE AUSTEN
10 Characterization:Heroines and Heroes
The Caricatures
Minor Characters
The Heroes
Heroes and Heroines:Marriage and Money
11 The Construction of the Novels
The Fable of the Starling
Narrative Construction
Settings:the Ritual Entertainments
12 Emma
Frank Churchill
Mr Knightley
13 Jane Austen's Place in English Fiction
PART FOUR:REFERENCE SECTION
Bibliography
Short Biographies
Jane Austen's Vocabulary
Places
Notes to Maps of Places in Jane Austen's Novels
Notes to Maps of London and Bath
INDEX