Part I. The Eighteenth-Century Legacy: 1. Auspices 2. Pride and Prejudice, a politics of the picturesque 3. Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians 4. Sense and Sensibility and the philosophers Part II. Engaging with the New Age: 5. Diffraction 6. Mansfield Park: charting the religious revival 7. Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty 8. Persuasion: light on an old genre 9. Sanditon and speculation Bibliography.
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