COVER -- Licence -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- The Author -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Jane Austen in her Time -- 1.1 Life and Work -- 1.2 The Historical Background -- 1.3 The Literary Context -- 2. Writing Emma -- 2.1 Bits of Ivory? Jane Austen's Craft of Fiction -- 2.2 The Composition of Emma -- 3 Emma in the Marketplace -- 3.1 Publication History -- 3.2 Readership History -- 4. Reading Emma -- 4.1 Volume I (Chapters 1 to 18) -- 4.2 Volume II (Chapters 19 to 36) -- 4.3 Volume III (Chapters 37 to 55) -- 5. Emma and the Critics -- 5.1 The First Half-century -- 5.2 1870 to 1939 -- 5.3 1939 to the Present -- 6 Bibliography -- 6.1 Main Text -- 6.2 Biography and Letters -- 6.3 Criticism -- Humanities Insights.