Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-350) and index.
Introduction -- Empiricism through the prism of aesthetics -- The silence of Ajax: Hume's moral sublime -- Adam Smith's judgment of judgment -- Richardson's Clarissa and eyes of the world -- The orchestration of spectacle in Sense and Sensibility -- Sir Joshua Reynolds and the discourses of art -- Pemberley's hall of mirrors: Austen and Reynolds -- The impartial spectator of Mansfield Park