Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen

by D. W. Harding

• ISBN13: 9780485115222
• ISBN10: 0485115220
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Summary

D.W. Harding was a rarity amongst literary critics since his academic career was passed as Professor of Psychology. Yet this professional occupation never obtruded. As Professor Knights writes in his Foreword, as a critic 'he was one of the most sanely subtle or subtly sane) of his generation'. His title essay, 'Regulated Hatred', altered the course of Austen criticism, and this selection from the best of his writing about his favourite author (some of it previously unpublished) will be an important landmark in Austen criticism.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Foreword	1	(4)
L.C. Knights
1. Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen	5	(22)
2. Family Life in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	27	(21)
3. The Social Habitat in Jane Austen: Distant and Nearer Contexts	48	(21)
4. Jane Austen and Moral Judgment	69	(11)
5. Character and Caricature in Jane Austen	80	(26)
6. Mansfield Park	106	(21)
7. Northanger Abbey	127	(20)
8. An Introduction to Persuasion	147	(24)
9. Civil Falsehood in Emma	171	(19)
10. Fraternal and Conjugal Love (Fanny Price and Edmund)	190	(21)
Appendices	211	(15)
A The Supposed Letter Form of Sense and Sensibility	211	(7)
B An Introduction to the Austen-Leigh Memoir	218	(5)
C D.W. Harding: a biographical chronology	223	(3)
Notes	226	(3)
Index	229