The making of Jane Austen

Introduction : Jane Austen matters

Part I. Jane Austen, illustrated. Austen's first English illustrator : Ferdinand Pickering's Victorian sensationalism

Visual Austen experiments : from lush landscapes to bearded heroes

A golden age for illustrated Austen : from peacocks to photoplays

Part II. Jane Austen, dramatized. Austen's first dramatist : Rosina Filippi's Duologues for every cultivated amateur

Playing Mr. Darcy before Laurence Olivier : cross dressing, consuming passion, and cracking the whip

Dear Jane : Christian spinster, feminist flirt, and shadow actress

Stage to screen Pride and prejudice : Hollywood's Austen and its unrealized screenplays

Part III. Jane Austen, politicized. The night of the divine Jane : men's club clashes and politics in the periodical press

Stone-throwing Jane Austen : suffragist street activism, grand pageants, and costume parties

Part IV. Jane Austen, schooled. The first Jane Austen dissertation : George Pellew and the human telephone

Textbook Austens : from McGuffey's readers to National lampoon

Coda : twenty-first-century Jane Austen.