Jane Nardin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.

• Acknowledgments 1. How to Read Jane Austen 2. The Concept of Propriety 3. Propriety as Duty to Society and Self: Sense and Sensibility 4. Propriety as a Test of Character: Pride and Prejudice 5. Propriety and the Education of Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey 6. Status, Work, and Propriety in Mansfield Park 7. Egotism and Propriety in Emma 8. Propriety and the Exceptional Individual: Persuasion Notes

Professor Nardin applies this general viewpoint on Jane Austen's art in her examination of the way Jane Austen uses ideas about propriety in her six novels. For Jane Austen, a person's social behavior-the code of propriety by which he lives-is the external manifestation of his internal moral character. What is the relationship between the conventionally accepted rules of propriety by which the gentry of Jane Austen's era regulated their lives and a morally valid standard of social behavior? This is an important question throughout Jane Austen's work. Those Elegant Decorums is a detailed study of the answers Jane Austen suggests in each novel.

Jane Nardin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.

• Acknowledgments 1. How to Read Jane Austen 2. The Concept of Propriety 3. Propriety as Duty to Society and Self: Sense and Sensibility 4. Propriety as a Test of Character: Pride and Prejudice 5. Propriety and the Education of Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey 6. Status, Work, and Propriety in Mansfield Park 7. Egotism and Propriety in Emma 8. Propriety and the Exceptional Individual: Persuasion Notes

Professor Nardin applies this general viewpoint on Jane Austen's art in her examination of the way Jane Austen uses ideas about propriety in her six novels. For Jane Austen, a person's social behavior-the code of propriety by which he lives-is the external manifestation of his internal moral character. What is the relationship between the conventionally accepted rules of propriety by which the gentry of Jane Austen's era regulated their lives and a morally valid standard of social behavior? This is an important question throughout Jane Austen's work. Those Elegant Decorums is a detailed study of the answers Jane Austen suggests in each novel.

Jane Nardin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.

• Acknowledgments 1. How to Read Jane Austen 2. The Concept of Propriety 3. Propriety as Duty to Society and Self: Sense and Sensibility 4. Propriety as a Test of Character: Pride and Prejudice 5. Propriety and the Education of Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey 6. Status, Work, and Propriety in Mansfield Park 7. Egotism and Propriety in Emma 8. Propriety and the Exceptional Individual: Persuasion Notes

Professor Nardin applies this general viewpoint on Jane Austen's art in her examination of the way Jane Austen uses ideas about propriety in her six novels. For Jane Austen, a person's social behavior-the code of propriety by which he lives-is the external manifestation of his internal moral character. What is the relationship between the conventionally accepted rules of propriety by which the gentry of Jane Austen's era regulated their lives and a morally valid standard of social behavior? This is an important question throughout Jane Austen's work. Those Elegant Decorums is a detailed study of the answers Jane Austen suggests in each novel.