One: 'The Making of England's Jane'
i. 'Everybody's dear Jane'
ii. Janeites in the trenches
iii. R. W. Chapman restores civilization
iv. Territorial acts
Two: Personal Obscurity and the Biographer's Baggage
i. Ground rules?
ii. Cassandra's legacies, or
the family management of Jane Austen's life
iii. Two texts
iv. Secrets and lies, or managing the family
v. Coda: portraits
Three: Manuscripts and the Acts of Writing
i. Dead ends and false starts
ii. iThe Watsons/i: Jane Austen's other Bath novel
iii.
iPersuasion/i: from manuscript to print
iv. iSanditon/i
Four: Textual Identities: 1
i. 'Print settles it'
ii. Professional writer: Jane Austen's other identity
iii. 'The Steventon Edition'
iv. Continuations: Anna Lefroy's iSanditon/i and Catherine Hubback's iThe
Younger Sister/i
Five: Speaking Commas
i. 'A total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar'
ii. 'To an editor nothing is a trifle by which his author is obscured'
iii. 'For this book is the talking voice that runs on'
Six: Textual Identities:
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i. 'The grammar of literary investigation': or, a brief history of textual criticism in the twentieth century
ii. Film as textual future
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Kathryn Sutherland is a Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford.
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