Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index
Ch. 1. The Man of Feeling, Arthur Young, and the Dissolution of the Paternal Order -- Ch. 2. Economic Man and Civic Virtue: Godwin's Caleb Williams and Bage's Mount Henneth -- Ch. 3. The Moral and Political Economy of Property in Austen's Emma -- Ch. 4. Mansfield Park, Hannah More, and the Evangelical Redefinition of Virtue -- Ch. 5. Women, the Clergy, and the Battle for the Superintendency of the Poor -- Ch. 6. The Cottage Visitor, the Housekeeper, and the Policeman: Self-Regulation and Surveillance in Bleak House.
