The Civilized Imagination : A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Of taste and the civilised imagination; Part I. Ann Radcliffe: 2. The figure in the landscape; 3. The labyrinth of decorum; Part II. Jane Austen: 4. The control of meaning; 5. Attachments and supplantments; 6. Reading the word of mature; Part III. Sir Walter Scott: 7. Blind roads; 8. Superstition and the enchanted reader; 9. Violence and law; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Index.