Jane Austen and the Popular Novel

Part I. The Literary Context and Austen’s Early Fiction

1. Introduction: Fiction and the Literary Marketplace, 1785–1820
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2. Jane Austen and Fiction, 1787–1809
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3. Getting Published at Last, 1811–13
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Part II. Austen’s Regency Novels

4. Making the Popular Polite: Mansfield Park and the Moral-Domestic Novel
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5. Woman as Genius/Genius Loci: Emma as an English National Tale
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6. The Business of Novel Writing: Walter Scott and Persuasion
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7. Conclusion: The Canonization of Jane Austen
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Keywords: Literature, Literary History, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature