Introduction, Jane Austen as a social novelist / David Monaghan -- Jane Austen and Romantic imprisonment / Nina Auerbach -- The influence of place : Jane Austen and the novel of social consciousness / Ann Banfield -- Disregarded designs : Jane Austen's sense of the volume / Marilyn Butler -- Sex and social life in Jane Austen's novels / Jan S. Fergus -- "Real solemn history" and social history / Christopher Kent -- Jane Austen and the position of women / David Monaghan -- Jane Austen and the problem of leisure / Jane Nardin -- Mansfield Park : the revolt of the "feminine" woman / Leroy W. Smith -- Muted discord : generational conflict in Jane Austen / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- In between : Anne Elliot marries a sailor and Charlotte Heywood goes to the seaside / Tony Tanner.