Jane Austen the Novelist Essays Past and Present [Hardcover]

In these informed and entertaining essays, Juliet McMaster's recurring concern is with the interpenetration of intelligence with emotion among Jane Austen's characters. The author, a leading Jane Austen scholar, begins with an exploration of Austen's burgeoning popularity in our culture, though close studies of lesser-well known works such as 'Love and Friendship' and 'The Watsons', and familiar texts such as 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma', moving on to a wide-ranging exploration through all the novels, of the operation of love and the articulation of desire.Texts and Abbreviations - Preface - Acknowledgements - Jane Austen as a Cultural Phenomenon - Teaching 'Love and Friendship' - 'The Beautiful Cassandra' Illustrated - Hospitality - 'God Gave Us Our Relations': The Watson Family - 'Acting by Design' in Pride and Prejudice - The Secret Languages of Emma - Love in Jane Austen's Novels - The Symptons of Love - Surface and Subsurface - Love and Pedagogy - Women in Love - IndexJULIET MCMASTER