Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction. On Criticism and Other 'Middle Subjects'; 1. Austen and Austin; 2. Intelligible Community; 3. Sense and Sensibility and Suffering; 4. Pride and Prejudice and the Comedy of Perfectionism; 5. Perlocutionary Entailments; 6. Emma and Other Minds; 7. Persuasion, Conviction, and Care: Jane Austen's Keeping; Bibliography; Index.