Foreword, Christopher Gillie; Introduction, Christopher Gillie; Part 1 Biographical Background, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 1 Character and Family Background, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 2 Religion, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 3 Mysteries and Uncertainties, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 4 Juvenilia, Christopher Gillie; Part 2 Literary Background; Chapter 5 Augustan Sense and Sensibility, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 6 Literary Contemporaries: Isolation and Involvement, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 7 The Eighteenth-century Novel, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 8 The Arts and the Social Order, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 9 Women in Life and Literature, Christopher Gillie; Part 3 The Art of Jane Austen; Chapter 10 Characterization: Heroines and Heroes, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 11 The Construction of the Novels, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 12 Emma, Christopher Gillie; Chapter 13 Jane Austen's Place in English Fiction, Christopher Gillie; Part 4 Reference Section; Chapter 14 Bibliography, Christopher Gillie;