Jane Austen

Preface; Introduction, B.C. Southam; Chapter 1 Critical Views; Chapter 2 R.H. Hutton on the Memoir, R.H. Hutton; Chapter 3 Anne Thackeray on Jane Austen, Anne Thackeray; Chapter 4 Hutton on the minor works; Chapter 5 Leslie Stephen, 'the popularity of Miss Austen', Leslie Stephen; Chapter 6 'of the second order'; Chapter 7 Pellew's 'new criticism', George Pellew; Chapter 8 'narrow unconscious perfection of form'; Chapter 9 The art of Jane Austen; Chapter 10 'maiden lady realism'; Chapter 11 Austenolatry; Chapter 12 'no hidden meaning'; Chapter 13 'the modernness of her method'; Chapter 14 'The Charm of Miss Austen'; Chapter 15 The 'provincial' Jane Austen; Chapter 16 Realism and 'entire truthfulness'; Chapter 17 Agnes Repplier on Jane Austen, Agnes Repplier; Chapter 18 Saintsbury on Pride and Prejudice, George Edward Bateman Saintsbury; Chapter 19 'mistress of derision'; Chapter 20 'the greatest of them all'; Chapter 21 The heroines; Chapter 22 Henry James on Jane Austen, Henry James; Chapter 23 Mark Twain on Jane Austen, Mark Twain; Chapter 24 A.C. Bradley on Jane Austen, A.C. Bradley; Chapter 25 'complete common sense'; Chapter 26 'her greatness as an artist'; Chapter 27 Farrer on Jane Austen, Reginald Farrer; Chapter 28 'the means are as simple as the result is amazing'; Chapter 29 'such cool perceptions'; Chapter 30 'waking the Jane Austenite up'; Chapter 31 'the forerunner of Henry James and of Proust'; Chapter 32 'Novels preeminently of character'; Chapter 33 'the spirit of comedy'; Chapter 34 'a great little novelist'; Chapter 35 The style of the 'essayist'; Chapter 36 'this comic patronage of Jane Austen'; Chapter 37 The 'Divine Jane' lives on; Chapter 38 'the feminism of Jane Austen'; Chapter 39 'sense' and 'sensibility'; Chapter 40 'she shocks me'; Chapter 41 Miscellanea;