A Preface to Jane Austen

List of illustrations  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part One: Biographical Background  1 Character and Family Background  2 Religion  3 Mysteries and Uncertainties  4 Juvenilia  Part Two: Literary Background  5 Augustan Sense and Sensibility  6 Literary Contemporaries: Isolation and Involvement  7 The Eighteenth-century Novel
8 The Arts and the Social Order  9 Women in Life and Literature  Part Three: The Art of Jane Austen  10 Characterization: Heroines and Heroes  11 The Construction of the Novels  12 Emma  13 Jane Austen's Place in English Fiction  Part Four: Reference Section  Index

Biography

CHRISTOPHER GILLIE is an Arts Tutor for the Open University having for a long period served Trinity Hall, Cambridge as a lecturer in English. Among other books he has compiled the Longman Companion to English Literature and in 1983 published the volume on E M Forster for the present series.