Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She is the author of Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keats’s Paradise Lost (1998), as well as numerous articles on various Romantic writers. She also edited Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835 (2009), the New Riverside edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (2002), and co-edited (with Diane Hoeveler) Approaches to Teaching Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1993).

• IntroductionBeth Lau 1. Austen’s Juvenilia and Sciences of the MindWilliam Nelles 2. Catherine’s Education in Mindreading in Northanger AbbeyBeth Lau 3. Jane Austen and the Perils of Mental Time TravelAlan Richardson 4. The Map of Love in Mansfield ParkWendy S. Jones 5. Austen Agitated: Feeling Emotions in Mixed MediaKate Singer6. Pride and Prejudice and Social Identity TheoryMatt Lorenz 7. ’My Fanny’: The Price of PlayBethany Wong 8. Patterns of Attention and Memory in Jane Austen: Literary Neuroscience, History of Mind, and the Importance of Individual DifferenceNatalie M. Phillips et al 9. Persuasion: Lessons in Socio-Cognitive UnderstandingPatrick Colm Hogan 10. On Resilience and Jane AustenKay Young

"Thanks to this new volume, cognitive literary studies has progressed one step further." - Inger S. B. Brodey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind richly reveals the power of cognitive literary studies, its need to embrace evolutionary perspectives, and the mutual benefits of integrating the arts, the humanities, and the sciences."- Brian Boyd, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture."Jane Austen specialists will, I'm sure, find in this book many insights into the novels and also much to interest them about the current state of cognitive science. Overall, the standard of the writing is high and the chapters by Nelles, Richardson, and Hogan are outstanding."- Alan Palmer, Review19.org.