Last Impressions

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. Austen's Telos: Speeding Truth into the World
2. "Abjuring All Future Attachments": Teaching the Reader to Desire the Right Object in Lady Susan
3. Parental Tyranny and Filial Disobedience: Socratic Irony and Metalepsis in Northanger Abbey
4. Forced Retrospection in Sense and Sensibility: Willoughby's Desire for "Something Like Forgiveness" on "More Reasonable Grounds"
5. "The Happiest, Wisest, Most Reasonable End": Silence, Spatial Dislocation, Secrets, and the Sublime in Pride and Prejudice
6. "As Nearly For Ever as Possible": Apophasis in Mansfield Park
7. "The Perfect Happiness of the Union": Undeceiving Mr. Knightley and the Reader in Emma
8. The Oracles of Kellynch and Uppercross: Predicting the Future in Persuasion
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Jane Austen; Austen scholarship; Jane Austen' s narrative techniques; literary analysis; narrative strategies; Socratic irony; metalepsis; novelistic conclusions; didactic fiction; Jane Austen novels; parental consent in literature