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Acknowledgements ix
Note on chronology xi
PART ONE THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LEGACY
I Auspices 3
Science, the self, and a changing world 10
Staging the Enlightenment 27
Unheroic sentiments 46
Civility and the passions 60
2 Pride and Prejudice, a politics of the picturesque 73
Courtship and the picturesque 85
Bage, Burke, and Wollstonecraft 100
3 Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians 108
Radcliffe and recidivism 111
The new well-tempered genre 115
4 Sense and Sensibility and the philosophers 129
Empiricism revisited 134
Sensibility reclaimed 139
PART TWO ENGAGING WITH THE NEW AGE
5 Diffraction 155
Evangelicalism and the Enlightenment 161
Evangelicalism and the Austens 167
6 Mansfield Park: charting the religious revival 174
The virtue of independence 179
7 Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty 197
Rank, courtship, and gender: Adam Smith and Wollstonecraft 204
8 Persuasion: light on an old genre 220
Affirming the strength of women 228
9 Sanditon and speculation 243
Select bibliography 255
Index 268