Romancing Jane Austen

1. Introduction: The Persistence of Jane Austen’s Romance
Ashley Tauchert

2. Northanger Abbey: ‘hastening together to perfect felicity’
Ashley Tauchert

3. Sense and Sensibility: ‘her opinions are all romantic’
Ashley Tauchert

4. Pride and Prejudice: ‘Lydia’s gape’
Ashley Tauchert

5. Mansfield Park: ‘she does not like to act’
Ashley Tauchert

6. Emma: ‘the operation of the same system in another way’
Ashley Tauchert

7. Persuasion: ‘loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone’
Ashley Tauchert

8. Conclusion: ‘such an alternative as this had not occurred to her’
Ashley Tauchert

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature