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.