Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Sense and sensibility, or, Growing up dichotomous / Ruth apRoberts -- Manners, morals, and Jane Austen / Martin Price -- Shut up in prose : gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- Jane Austen and the traditions of comic aggression : Sense and sensibility / Ian Watt -- Persuasion in persuasion / Ann Molan -- Knowledge and opinion : Pride and prejudice / Tony Tanner -- Characterization in Jane Austen / John Bayley -- Emma's choices / Roger Gard -- What are men to rocks and mountains? : Pride and prejudice / Stuart M. Tave -- Mansfield Park : dismantling Pemberley / Jo Alyson Parker -- "The Hartfield edition" : Jane Austen and Shakespeare / John Wiltshire -- Jane Austen's opacities / Laura Dabundo.