Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. Historicizing Austen
5. 1. History, Silence, and "The Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot" 17
6. 2. The Picturesque, the Real, and the Consumption of Jane Austen 44
7. 3. Why Jane Austen Is Not Frances Burney: Probability, Possibility, and Romantic Counterhegemony 82
8. PART II. Reading the Historical Austen
9. 4. Lady Susan and the Failure of Austen's Early Published Novels 109
10. 5. Narrative Incompetence in Northanger Abbey 138
11. 6. Jane Austen's Future Shock 154
12. 7. Nostalgia in Emma 180
13. 8. The Body in Persuasion and Sanditon 214
14. Notes 245
15. Index 273
16. Acknowledgments 285