Mimi Marinucci is a professor of philosophy and women¿s and gender studies at Eastern Washington University. She resides in Cheney, WA.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: ¿How Much Sooner One Tires of Anything¿ than of Jane Austen -- Mimi MarinucciPart I. Love and Marriage1 Love in the Time of Epistemic Injustice -- Vittorio Bufacchi2 Can there be Sense without Sensibility? The Middle Road to Love and Marriage in Jane Austen -- Sally Winkle3 Love, Marriage and Dialectics in the Novels of Jane Austen -- Suzie Gibson4 Beyond Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austin and Friedrich Nietzsche on What Makes a Happy Marriage -- William A. Lindenmuth5 Marriage and Friendship in Jane Austen: Self-knowledge, Virtue, and the ¿Second Self¿ -- Kathleen DoughertyPart II. Morality and Virtue6 Finding Happiness at Hartfield -- Janelle Pötzsch7 The Last Great Representative of the Virtues: MacIntyre after Austen -- David LaRocca8 Jane Austen on Moral Luck -- Eva DadlezPart III. Wealth and Class9 Women Owning Property: The Great Lady in Jane Austen -- Rita Oliveira10 Deconstructing Entailment -- Christopher Ketcham11 ¿Pictures of Perfection Make Me Sick and Wicked¿: Privilege and Parody in Emma -- Nancy Marck Cantwell12 ¿The Middle Classes at Play¿: Austen and Marx Go to Hollywood -- Charles BanePart IV. Concepts and Clarifications13 Do You Want to Know a Secret? The Immorality and Morality of Secrets and the Subversive Jane Austen -- Elizabeth Olson and Charles Taliaferro14 Persuasion, Influence, and Over-Persuasion -- Keith Dromm and Heather Salter15 The Language Games of Persuasion -- Richard GilmorePart V. Monsters and Zombies16 Dead and Alive: Austen¿s Role in Mashup Literature -- Amanda Riter17 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Regency, Repression, and Roundhouse Kicks -- Andrea Zanin18 ¿Till This Moment I Never Knew Myself¿: On Identities and Zombies -- A.G. HoldierIndexAbout the Contributors

Jane Austen and Philosophy explores questions about morality and duty, propriety and dignity, and obligation and happiness that sheds new light on the works of this classic author and reveals deep issues still relevant to the men and women of society today.