Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xiv
5. Note on Texts xv
6. Jane Austen and the Arts Introduction 1
7. Part I The Arts in Context
8. 1 Jane Austen, Early Modern Aesthetics and Contemplative Sublimity 15
9. 2 Taste and Passion, Disinterest and the Imagination 34
10. 3 Jane Austen, Moral Philosophy and the Tradition 47
11. 4 ‘Possessing a most exquisite taste in every species of literature’: Reading, Moral Taste and Creative Action in Jane Austen’s Novels 61
12. 5 Reforming the Artist Heroine: Reading Sense and Sensibility (1811) as a Response to Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story (1796) 76
13. 6 Picturing (In)Sensibility in Austen’s Novels and Print Culture 92
14. 7 The Flemish Jane Austen 108
15. Part II The Arts in Austen
16. 8 ‘The Creative Eye of Fancy’: Women, Visual Culture and the Female Gaze in Austen’s Novels 129
17. 9 Shadow Portraits: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Silhouettes 142
18. 10 Jane Austen and Crafts 159
19. 11 Jane Austen’s Conversation Pieces 174
20. 12 Jane Austen, Caricature and the Fat Self 191
21. 13 Jane Austen and the Figure of the Body 205
22. 14 ‘He has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people’: Austen’s Men and the Arts 218
23. 15 Music in Jane Austen’s Novels 232
24. 16 Jane Austen’s Dance Dialogues: Representing Dance in the Novels 247
25. 17 The Paper Age: Jane Austen, Fashion and Finance 261
26. 18 Jane Austen and the Theatre of Her Time 276
27. 19 Jane Austen, Architecture and the Decorative Arts 291
28. 20 Creators of Spaces: The Art of Owning, Inhabiting and Imagining Property in Jane Austen 307
29. 21 ‘Nothing but pleasure from beginning to end’: Austen’s Gardens 321
30. Part III Afterlives
31. 22 Jane Austen and the Letter 337
32. 23 Austen in a Competitive Literary Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Editions 351
33. 24 Jane Austen and the Imperfect Art of Translation 372
34. 25 Dealing with Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novels: Completions of The Watsons and Sanditon 389
35. 26 The Perils of Novelistic Adaptation: Death Comes to Pemberley, Longbourn and Pamela 403
36. 27 When the Pen is in Fans’ Hands – The Jane Austen Fan Fiction Phenomenon 417
37. 28 Locating Austen in Contemporary Theatre 435
38. 29 ‘I am having a bit of a strange postmodern moment here’: Adapting Austen for Television 451
39. 30 Theme Parks and Seaside Resorts: Rethinking Material and Visual Culture in Sanditon (2019) and Austenland (2013) 465
40. 31 ‘Three or four families in a RPG’: Gaming and Jane Austen 477
41. 32 Austen Reloaded: Digital Approaches to Jane Austen and the Arts 491
42. 33 The Jane Austen Heritage Industry and Literary Tourism 513
43. Notes on Contributors 527
44. Index 534
45. Plate 545