Table of Contents:
  • The Jane Austen phenomenon: remaking the past at the millennium / Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson
  • How to do things with Austen / James Thompson
  • Popular culture and the comedy of manners: Clueless and fashion clues / Maureen Turim
  • Love at the Hellmouth: Buffy the vampire slayer / Kristina Straub
  • Clueless: about history / Deidre Lynch
  • "It can't go on like this": Dangerous liaisons in the Reagan-Thatcher years / Sarah Maza
  • Placing Jane Austen, displacing England: touring between book, history, and nation / Mike Crang
  • The return home / Suzanne R. Pucci
  • The return to repression: filming in the nineteenth century / Virginia L. Blum
  • A generational gig with Jane Austen, Sigmund Freud, and Amy Heckerling: fantasies of sexuality, gender, fashion, and disco in and beyond Clueless / Denise Fulbrook
  • Sleeping with Mr. Collins / Ruth Perry
  • Books to movies: gender and desire in Jane Austen's adaptations / Martine Voiret
  • Gender and the heritage genre: popular feminism turns to history / Madeleine Dobie.