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PART ONE:BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUNDChronological Table 2

1 Character and Family Background 7

2 Religion 16

Jane Austen and the Clergy 17

Candour 21

3 Mysteries and Uncertainties 23

4 Juvenilia 28

Love and Freindship 30

Evelyn 34

Catharine 36

Intervening Work 37

PART TWO:LITERARY BACKGROUND 41

5 Augustan Sense and Sensibility 41

Johnson and Conservative Reason:'Rasselas' 45

Johnson and the Art of the Novel 47

Cowper and Sensibility 51

6 Literary Contemporaries:Isolation and Involvement 58

7 The Eighteenth-century Novel 65

Daniel Defoe,1660-1731 66

Samuel Richardson,1689-1761 68

Jonathan Swift,1667-1745 73

Henry Fielding,1707-54 76

Fanny Burney,1752-1840 80

8 The Arts and the Social Order 87

Gilpin and the Picturesque 91

9 Women in Life and Literature 98

The Predicament of the Jane Austen Heroine 103

PART THREE:THE ART OF JANE AUSTEN 103

10 Characterization:Heroines and Heroes 109

The Caricatures 112

Minor Characters 115

The Heroines 115

The Heroes 119

Heroes and Heroines:Marriage and Money 121

11 The Construction of the Novels 123

The Fable of the Starling 123

Narrative Construction 126

Settings:the Ritual Entertainments 129

The Meaning of the Fable 131

12 Emma 133

Frank Churchill 142

Mr Knightley 144

13 Jane Austen's Place in English Fiction 149

PART FOUR:REFERENCE SECTION 165

Bibliography 165

Short Biographies 169

Jane Austen's Vocabulary 173

Places 176

Notes to Maps of Places in Jane Austen's Novels 180

Notes to Maps of London and Bath 183

INDEX 187