...Rosetta Young “‘How nicely you talk; I love to hear you’: Speech as Cultural Capital in Emma , Middlemarch , and The Portrait of a Lady ” (pp. 286–315) In this essay, I examine how, in Emma , Middlemarch , and The Portrait of a Lady , Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Henry James craft heroines who...

...Michael Greaney Michael Greaney, “‘The Meaner & More Usual &c.’: Everybody in Emma ” (pp. 417-440) This essay aims to read Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) not as a portrait of a pampered individual but as a story of collective or communal selfhood—that is, as the story of everybody . “Everybody...

...Paul Giles Paul Giles, “‘By Degrees’: Jane Austen’s Chronometric Style of World Literature” (pp. 265–293) This essay considers how Jane Austen’s work relates to “World Literature” by internalizing a chronometric style. Examining the emergence of the chronometer in the eighteenth century...

...Meaghan Malone Meaghan Malone, “Jane Austen’s Balls: Emma ’s Dance of Masculinity” (pp. 427–447) Jane Austen’s scenes of dance are at the narrative heart of each of her novels, places where heroine and hero meet and flirt according to rigid prescriptions for chaste courtship. In this essay, I argue...

...Gregory Tate Gregory Tate, “Austen’s Literary Alembic: Sanditon , Medicine, and the Science of the Novel” (pp. 336–362) This essay examines the representation of science in Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon . It argues that this text, written in the months before Austen’s death in 1817...

...Rachel Provenzano Oberman The question of whose voice is speaking, the narrator's or the heroine's, is central in Jane Austen's Emma (1814), for although the two voices sound similar at points, the story that the heroine tells is but an incomplete part of the narrator's larger story. While Emma...

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...Janine Barchas Jane Austen uses the word “very” in Emma (1815) at a surprisingly high frequency, one that significantly outpaces its appearance in her other novels as well as in the works of her contemporaries. This essay resists dismissing this smallish word as a nugatory accidental and explores...