Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance

Résumé
Brings together writers from diverse worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.

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Acknowledgments Introduction - Nora Nachumi and Stephanie Oppenheim Part I: The Novels 1. Austen's Teasing, or What the Wit Wants - Mary Ann O'Farrell 2. Performing (Dis)comfort: Queer Possibilities in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park - Jade Higa 3. Taking Hands: The Fisting Phantasmic in Sense and Sensibility - Christien Garcia Part II: Austen Fan Culture and Austenesque Fiction 4. Always Wanting More: Desire and Austen Fan Fiction - Marilyn Francus 5. Unconquerable Attraction: Darcy and Elizabeth's Falling in Love in Austenesque Novels - Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli 6. What's Hidden in Highbury? - Stephanie Oppenheim 7. Passion and Pastiche - Diana Birchall Part III: Austen on Stage, on Screen, and Online 8. In Search of Colin Firth's Bum - Nora Nachumi 9. Jane Again - Rachel Brownstein 10. Touching Scenes: Austen, Intimacy and Staging Lovers' Vows - Elaine McGirr 11. Jane's Player's: Sex and Romance in the Virtual World of Jane Austen - Judy Tyrer 12. To YouTube from Gretna Green: Updating Lydia Bennet for the Digital Age - Margaret Dunlap Part IV: Austen in Conversations and Contexts 13. Erotic Austen - Devoney Looser 14. The Shadow Jane - Laura Engel 15. In Bed with Mr. Knightly: How Austen and Her Readers Understand Sexual Compatibility - Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at Last - Juliette Wells Notes on Contributors Index