Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions

1. Introduction: Did Jane Austen Really Mean That?
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

2. Bejeweling the Clandestine Body/Bawdy: The Miniature Spaces of Sense and Sensibility
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

3. The Anxieties and “Felicities of Rapid Motion”: Animated Ideology in Pride and Prejudice
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

4. Fashioning the Body: Cross-Dressing, Dressing, Undressing, and Dressage in Northanger Abbey
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

5. Making and Improving: Fallen Women, Masquerades, and Erotic Humor in Mansfield Park
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

6. “Praying to Cupid for a Cure”: Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Marriage Market in Emma
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

7. “Unbecoming Conjunctions”: Comic Mourning and the Female Gaze in Persuasion
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

8. Conclusion
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Fiction