Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
Introduction : closing (with) Jane Austen / Robert Clark -- Improving on sensibility / Alastair Duckworth -- Sensibility and Jacobinism / Marilyn Butler -- Sense and silences / Angela Leighton -- Closure and narrative danger / D.A. Miller -- Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form (1) ; Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form (2) / Mary Poovey -- Women, power, and subversion / Judith Lowder Newton -- Necessary conjunctions / Julia Prewitt Brown -- Politics, pride, prejudice and the picturesque / Isobel Armstrong -- Irony and authority / Rachel M. Brownstein -- Can this marriage be saved : Jane Austen makes sense of an ending / Karen Newman