Introduction: Literary Theory and Austen Criticism
Deconstruction, Francophobia, Austen
Austen, Historicism, Theory
Austen and the Play of the Signifier
Chapter 1: "Evelyn" and the Impossibility of the Gift
"Evelyn" and Derridean Gift Theory
Literary Language and the Contradictions of the Gift
Austen, Derrida, and Capitalism
Chapter 2: Speech, Writing, and Allegory in Pride and Prejudice
Phonocentrism: From Derrida to the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
Phonocentrism in Pride and Prejudice
Writing’s Rehabilitation
Dancing about Arche-Writing
Chapter 3: Allegory, Symbol, and Irony in Mansfield Park
Austen, Coleridge, Burke
The Fall of Symbol and the Rise of Allegory
Between Allegory and Irony: The Last Chapter
Between Allegory and Symbol: Lovers’ Vows
Chapter 4: Emma’s Parergonal Realism
Kant, Derrida, and the Parergon
Emma’s "Schemes in the In-Betweens"
Parergonal Lack
Parergonal Verse / Parergonal Prose
Confronting Front Matter
Sex and Citationality
Emma’s Headers and Footers
Horrors of Finery
Framing "Nothing"
Chapter 5: Austen’s Unromantic Romantic Ironies
From Comic to (German) Romantic Irony
Theorizing Parabasis: Fichte, Schlegel, and de Man
Parabasis of Parabasis in Emma
Tracing Austen’s Irony: "The History of England"
Closing the Ironic Opening of Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Bennet: Being Ironic
Irony and the Sublime
Biography
Shawn Normandin is an associate professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul.
