Offers a challenge to critics informed by new theories about the essential indeterminacy of language and hence literature. Nevertheless, post-structuralist methodologies have played an increasingly important part in studies of "Emma" during the last 20 years.
Table of contents:
Acknowledgements - General Editor's Preface - Introduction; D.Monaghan - Comic Symmetry in Jane Austen's Emma; B.Stovel - Emma and the Dangers of Individualism; A.M.Duckworth - Emma and the Democracy of Desire; B.Marie - Emma: Good Riddance; D.A.Miller - Emma as Charade and the Education of the Reader; J.M.Q.Davies - Reading Characters; Self, Society, and Text in Emma; J.Litvak - Intimacy in Emma; J.Thompson - Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen's Emma; R.Perry - The Self-Contained: Emma; N.Armstrong - Georgic Comedy: The Fictive Territory of Jane Austen's Emma; P.H.Fry - Notes on Contributors - Bibliography - Index
Table of contents:
Acknowledgements - General Editor's Preface - Introduction; D.Monaghan - Comic Symmetry in Jane Austen's Emma; B.Stovel - Emma and the Dangers of Individualism; A.M.Duckworth - Emma and the Democracy of Desire; B.Marie - Emma: Good Riddance; D.A.Miller - Emma as Charade and the Education of the Reader; J.M.Q.Davies - Reading Characters; Self, Society, and Text in Emma; J.Litvak - Intimacy in Emma; J.Thompson - Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen's Emma; R.Perry - The Self-Contained: Emma; N.Armstrong - Georgic Comedy: The Fictive Territory of Jane Austen's Emma; P.H.Fry - Notes on Contributors - Bibliography - Index