Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters Book

	Introduction	1
	Responding to the French Revolution: Williams's Julia and Burney's The Wanderer	5
	Having Her Cake and Eating, Too: Ambivalence, Popularity, and the Psychosocial Implications of Ann Radcliffe's Fiction	19
	The Preceptor as Fiend: Radcliffe's Psychology of the Gothic	31
	The Treatment of Women in the Novels of Charlotte Turner Smith	45
	Jane Austin's Opacities	53
	Susan Ferrier's Allusions: Comedy, Morality, and the Presence of Milton	61
	The Limits of Liberal Feminism in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda	73
	A Reading of Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent	83
	Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley: Ideological Affinities	97
	The Alienation of Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	109
	Mary Shelley, Shakespeare, and the Romantic Theatre	121
	Mary Shelley and the Romance of Science	135
	The Uses of Adventure: The Moral and Evangelical Robinsonnades of Agnes Strickland, Barbara Hofland and Ann Fraser Tytler	147
	Representative Chronology of English Novels by Women of the Romantic Period	159
	Selected Bibliography	169
	Index	171
	About the Contributors	175