If you would like to know more about some of the areas covered in my book, this page includes details of some of the sources I found most useful.

Philosophy and Culture

Brewer, John.  1997.  The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century.  London: HarperCollins.

Hume, David.  1978.   A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge.  2nd edn., rev. P. H. Nidditch.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hume, David.  2007.  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter Millican. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Locke, John. 1975. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. P. H. Nidditch. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seigel, Jerrold.  2005.  The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Smith, Adam.  2009.  The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. R. P. Hanley.  New York: Penguin.

Wahrman, Dror.  2004.  The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Austen

Bray, Joe.  2009.  The Female Reader in the English Novel: From Burney to Austen.  London and New York: Routledge.

Brown, Jessica.  2014.  ‘So Much Novelty and Beauty!’: Persuasion and the Spacious Aesthetic of Restraint.  In Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony, ed. Natasha Duquette and Elisabeth Lenckos, 179-192.  Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

Butler, Marilyn.  1975.   Jane Austen and the War of Ideas.  Reprinted 2002 with a new Introduction, 1987.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Clery, E. J.  2012.  Austen and Masculinity.  In A Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite, 332-342.  Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dames, Nicholas.  2001.  Austen’s Nostalgics.  Representations 73, 1: 117-143.

Gemmill, Katie. 2011. ‘Jane Austen as Editor: Letters on Fiction and the Cancelled Chapters of Persuasion’. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 24, 1 : 105-122.

Halsey, Katie.  2013.  Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786-1945.  London and New York: Anthem Press.

Johnson, Claudia L.  1988.  Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Knox-Shaw, Peter. 2004. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Looser, Devoney (ed.).  1995.  Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism.  New York: St Martin’s Press.

Morini, Massimiliano.  2009.  Jane Austen’s Narrative Techniques: A Stylistic and Pragmatic Analysis.  Farnham: Ashgate.

Murphy, Olivia. 2013. Jane Austen the Reader: The Artist as Critic. Basingstoke:  Palgrave Macmillan.

Nelson, James Lindemann.  2011.  Memory, Estrangement, and Nostalgia in Mansfield Park.  Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 94, 1/2: 77-97.

Poovey, Mary.  1984.  The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Valihora, Karen.  2010.   Austen’s Oughts: Judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury.  Newark: University of Delaware Press.

Warhol, Robyn R.  2007.  Narrative Refusals and Generic Transformation in Austen and James: What Doesn’t Happen in Northanger Abbey and The Spoils of Poynton.  The Henry James Review 28, 3: 259-268.

Waldron, Mary.  1999.  Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wallace, Tara Ghoshal.  1988.  Northanger Abbey and the Limits of Parody.  Studies in the Novel 20, 3: 262-273.

The Novel and Reading Practice

Armstrong, Nancy.  1987.  Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Bakhtin, M. M.  1981.  Discourse in the Novel.  In The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, 259-422.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

Bray, Joe.  2003.  The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness.  London and New York: Routledge.

Cohn, Dorrit.  1978.  Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Erickson, Lee.  1990.  The Economy of Novel Reading: Jane Austen and the Circulating Library.  Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 30, 4: 573-590.

Iser, Wolfgang.  1978.  The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lynch, Deidre Shauna.  1998.  The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mullan, John.  1997.  Feelings and Novels.  In Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present, ed. Roy Porter, 119-131.  London: Routledge.

Prince, Gerald.  1988.  The Disnarrated.  Style 22, 1:1-8.

Richardson, Alan.  2005.  Reading Practices.  In Jane Austen in Context, ed. Janet Todd, 397-405.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Watson, Nicola J.  1994.  Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.