Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I
Jane Austen’s Works
Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction
Jodi L. Wyett
Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon
Peter Graham
Pride and Prejudice: Not altogether ‘light & bright &
sparkling’
Susan J. Wolfson
The Novelty of Mansfield Park
Emily Rohrbach
Emma, a Heroine
George Justice
The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion
Michael D. Lewis
The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen’s
Letters
Jodi A. Devine
‘Setting at naught all rules of probable or possible’: Jane
Austen’s ‘Juvenilia’
John C. Leffel
Part II
Historicizing Austen: A Sampling
Touching upon Jane Austen’s Politics
Devoney Looser
‘A Picture of Real Life and Manners’? Austen, Burney, and
Edgeworth
Linda Bree
Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel
Elaine Bander
From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen’s Reading
Katie Halsey
Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of
Midlothian
Tara Goshal Wallace
From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen,
Consumerist Culture, and Narrative
Laura M. White
‘Bringing her Business Forward’: Jane Austen and Political
Economy
Sarah Comyn
Material Goods in Austen’s Novels
Sandie Byrne
Jane Austen and Music
Laura Voracheck
‘All the Egotism of an Invalid’: Hypochondria as Form in Jane
Austen’s Sanditon
Sarah Marsh
Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past
Olivia Murphy
They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and
Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and
Austen
Lyndon J. Dominique
Part III
Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling
Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and
Voice in the Novels
Adela Pinch
Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen’s Catch and Release
William Galperin
Austen’s Literary Time
Amit Yahav
Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism
Sarah Ailwood
Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic
Self-Sacrifice
Kathleen Anderson
‘Queer Austen’ and Northanger Abbey
Susan Celia Greenfield
‘A Perfectly Swell Romance’: Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A
Case Study in Analogy Criticism
Paula Marantz Cohen
Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de
Montolieu’s La Famille Elliot (1821)
Rachel Canter
Jane Austen and the Social Sciences
Wendy Jones
Part IV
Austen’s Communities: A Sampling
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line:
'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'
Susan Allen Ford
‘It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together’: JAS and
JASNA
Alice Marie Villaseñor
Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia
Reproduction
Christopher C. Nagle
‘You do not know her or her heart’: Minor Character Elaboration
in Contemporary Austen Spin-off Fiction
Kylie Mirmohamadi
Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand
Marina Cano
Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis
Laaleen Sukhera
Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in
Communities of Colour
Sigrid Michelle Anderson
Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen
Fanfiction
Melanie Borrego
Part V
Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling
Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Gamer and Katrina O’Loughlin
Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and
Films
Martha Stoddard Holmes
Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen
Online
Gillian Dow and Kim Simpson
Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park;
Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White
Privilege
Tim Black and Danielle Spratt
Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for
College and Secondary Instructors
Juliette Wells
Austen’s Belief in Education: Sōseki, Nogami, and
Sensibility
Kimiyo Ogawa
Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen
Summer Program
Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton
About the Author
Cheryl A. Wilson is Professor of English and
Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Stevenson
University. In 2012, she participated in the NEH Summer Seminar
“Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries” with Devoney Looser and
several other Routledge Companion contributors. She is the author
of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2009),
Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel (2012), and Jane Austen and the
Victorian Heroine (2017).
Maria H. Frawley is a Professor of English at
The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she
teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. She is
the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian
England; Anne Bronte; an edition of Harriet Martineau’s Life in the
Sick-Room, and Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century
Britain, in addition to essays on nineteenth-century women writers,
including Jane Austen. She is at work on a book titled Keywords of
Jane Austen’s Fiction.
