Introduction: sharing with our neighbors / Deidre Lynch -- The divine Miss Jane: Jane Austen, Janeites, and the discipline of novel studies / Claudia L. Johnson -- Jane Austen's friendship / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Sensibility by the numbers: Austen's work as regency popular fiction / Barbara M. Benedict -- Austen's earliest readers and the rise of the Janeites / William Galperin -- Decadent Austen entails: Forster, James, Firbank, and the "queer taste" of Sanditon (comp. 1817, publ. 1925) / Clara Tuite -- The virago Jane Austen / Katie Trumpener -- Free and happy: Jane Austen in America / Mary A. Favret -- In face of all the servants: spectators and spies in Austen / Roger Sales -- Jane Austen and Edward Said: gender, culture, and imperialism / Susan Fraiman.