Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen

D.W. Harding was a rarity amongst literary critics since his academic career was passed as Professor of Psychology. Yet this professional occupation never obtruded. As Professor Knights writes in his Foreword, as a critic 'he was one of the most sanely subtle or subtly sane) of his generation'. His title essay, 'Regulated Hatred', altered the course of Austen criticism, and this selection from the best of his writing about his favourite author (some of it previously unpublished) will be an important landmark in Austen criticism.

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Foreward by L.C Knights
Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen
Family Life in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Social Habit and Family Life in Jane Austen
Jane Austen and Moral Judgement
Character and Caricature in Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
An Introduction to Persuasion
Civil Falsehood in Emma
Fraternal and Conjugal Love
Appendices
a. The Supposed Letter Form of Sense and Sensibility
b. An Introduction to the Austen-Leigh Memior
c. D.W Harding: a bibliographical chronology
Notes
Index