Jane Austen, Feminism And Fiction Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Feminism and Fiction: 1694-1798
1	Introduction	3
2	Mary Astell to Catherine Macaulay: Women, Morals and Education	6
3	'A New Species of Writing'	13
4	Sir Charles Grandison	27
5	Women as Authors: 1788-98	33
6	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	39
7	The 'Great Wollstonecraft Scandal' of 1798	48
Pt. 2	The Publication and Reception of Jane Austen's Novels, 1797-1818
8	The Feminist Controversy and the Received Biography	53
9	Residence in Bath	61
10	The Curious History of Mrs Ashton Dennis (M.A.D.)	66
11	Scott's Review of Emma	74
Pt. 3	Allusion, Irony and Feminism in the Austen Novels
12	Comedy and the Austen Heroines: The Early Novels	81
13	Sense and Sensibility	86
14	Northhanger Abbey	88
15	Pride and Prejudice	91
16	Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma	93
Pt. 4	Feminist Criticism of Society and Literature in the Later Novels
17	Mansfield Park	101
18	Emma	121
19	Persuasion and Sanditon	144
	Postscript: Jane Austen and the Critical Tradition	161
Appendix	The Bath Theatre	175
	Notes	177
	Select Bibliography	185
	Index	187