Reading Jane Austen (Hardcover, 1st)

Introduction: 'Truths Universally Acknowledged' PART I: A MORAL TAPESTRY: MANSFIELD PARK 'The Real and Consistent Patron of the Selected Child' 'So Long as it be a German Play' 'If tenderness could ever be supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its place' PART II: SOCIAL GRIDS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, EMMA AND PERSUASION 'She had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance...seen any thing that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust - any thing that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits' 'She only demands from each of you either one thing very clever...or two things moderately clever - or three things very dull indeed' 'The advantage of maturity of mind, consciousness of right, and one independent fortune between them' PART III: POLITICS AND HISTORY The World of Jane Austen