Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Uncomfortable Situations 1
5. 1. Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 28
6. 2. Bearing Up in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African 52
7. 3. Hostile Environments in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest 77
8. 4. Mixed Feelings in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility 111
9. Epilogue. Irreconcilable Differences? (With Stephanie Preston) 129
10. Notes 147
11. Index 175