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Tables of Contents for Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
10
Acknowledgements
xix
2
Introduction
xxi
Part One: Feminism and Fiction: 1694-1798
3
50
1. Introduction
3
3
2. Mary Astell to Catherine Macaulay: Women, Morals and Education
6
7
3. `A New Species of Writing'
13
14
4. Sir Charles Grandison
27
6
5. Women as Authors: 1788-98
33
6
6. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
39
9
7. The `Great Wollstonecraft Scandal' of 1798
48
5
Part Two: The Publication and Reception of Jane Austen's Novels, 1797-1818
53
28
8. The Feminist Controversy and the Received Biography
53
8
9. Residence in Bath
61
5
10. The Curious History of Mrs Ashton Dennis (M.A.D.)
66
8
11. Scott's Review of Emma
74
7
Part Three: Allusion, Irony and Feminism in the Austen Novels
81
20
12. Comedy and the Austen Heroines: The Early Novels
81
5
13. Sense and Sensibility
86
2
14. Northhanger Abbey
88
3
15. Pride and Prejudice
91
2
16. Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma
93
8
Part Four: Feminist Criticism of Society and Literature in the Later Novels
101
60
17. Mansfield Park
101
20
18. Emma
121
23
19. Persuasion and Sanditon
144
17
Postcript: Jane Austen and the Critical Tradition
161
14
Appendix: The Bath Theatre
175
2
Notes
177
8
Select Bibliography
185
2
Index
187