Jane Austen: women, politics, and the novel

The female novelist and the critical tradition

The novel of crisis

The juvenilia and Northanger Abbey : the authority of men and books

Sense and sensibility : opinions too common and too dangerous

Pride and prejudice and the pursuit of happiness

Mansfield Park : confusions of guilt and revolutions of mind

Emma : "woman, lovely woman reigns alone"

Persuasion : the "unfeudal tone of the present day."