Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Feminism and Fiction 1694-1798
Introduction
Mary Astell to Catherine Macaulay: Women, Morals and Education
'A New Species of Writing'
Sir Charles Grandison
Women as Authors: 1788-98
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The 'Great Wollstonecraft Scandal' of 1798
Part Two: The Publication and Reception of Jane Austen's Novels, 1797-1818
The Feminist Controversy and the Received Biography
Residence in Bath
The Curious History of Mrs Ashton Dennis (M.A.D)
Scott's Review of Emma
Part Three: Allusion, Irony and Feminism in the Austen Novels
Comedy and the Austen Heroines: The Early Novels
Sense and Sensibility
Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice
Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma
Part Four: Feminist Criticism of Society and Literature in the Later Novels
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion and Sanditon
Postscript: Jane Austen and the Critical Tradition
Appendix: The Bath Theatre
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
