pt. 1. Novel and the war of ideas: Sentimentalism: the radical inheritance -- Jacobin novel I: revolution and reason -- Jacobin novel II: Caleb Williams and Hermsprong -- Anti-Jacobins -- Maria Edgeworth -- pt. 2. Jane Austen: Seeing a meaning -- Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey -- Sense and sensibility -- Pride and prejudice -- Mansfield Park -- Emma -- Persuasion and Sanditon.