Jane Austen's Business

List of Illustrations - Texts and Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - WHAT SEES KEENLY: - Persuasion: or, The Triumph of Cheerfulness; I.Grundy - 'Staring in Astonishment': Portraits and Prints in Persuasion; P.Sabor - Transfiguring the Romantic Sublime in Persuasion; L.Clark - Gazing and Avoiding the Gaze; D.Murray - Shame or Espousal? Emma and the New Intersubjectivity of Anxiety in Austen; G.Butte - WHAT SPEAKS APTLY: - 'My sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's': Mary Musgrove and Jane Austen's Art of Whining; J.Fergus - Talking about Talk in Pride and Prejudice; J.McMaster - Words 'Half-Dethroned': Jane Austen's Art of the Unspoken; I.Thomsen - WHAT MOVES FLEXIBLY: -Prudential Lovers and Lost Heirs: Persuasion and the Presence of Scott; J.Millgate - The Slow Process of Persuasion; J.Terry - The Austens and the Elliots: A Consumer's Guide to Persuasion; E.Copeland - Jane Austen's Real Business: The Novel, Literature, and Cultural Capital; G.Kelly -Private and Public in Persuasion; J.Prewitt Brown - WHAT THROBS FAST AND FULL: -Retrenchments; E.Showalter - 'The Sentient Target of Death': Jane Austen's Prayers; B.Stovel -The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance; M.Drabble - Works Cited - Index