Introduction, Jane Austen as a social novelist / David Monaghan
Jane Austen and Romantic imprisonment / Nina Auerbach
The influence of place : Jane Austen and the novel of social consciousness / Ann Banfield
Disregarded designs : Jane Austen's sense of the volume / Marilyn Butler
Sex and social life in Jane Austen's novels / Jan S. Fergus
"Real solemn history" and social history / Christopher Kent
Jane Austen and the position of women / David Monaghan
Jane Austen and the problem of leisure / Jane Nardin
Mansfield Park : the revolt of the "feminine" woman / Leroy W. Smith
Muted discord : generational conflict in Jane Austen / Patricia Meyer Spacks
In between : Anne Elliot marries a sailor and Charlotte Heywood goes to the seaside / Tony Tanner.
