Edited by Monica Lawler. Foreword by L. C. Knights. Harding [1906-1983] was a dual-degreed psychiatrist and literary critic who served on the editorial board of Scrutiny for 14 years. Along with his wife, he was a lifelong lover of Jane Austen. The title essay in this book "altered the course of Austen criticism" when it first appeared in Scrutiny in 1940. There are 10 essays in all, covering themes in Austen's novels like family life, social habitat, moral judgment; character and caricature; civil falsehood; fraternal and conjugal love. The novels E, MP, NA and P get their own essays. Appendices: The Supposed Letter-Form of Sense and Sensibility; Introduction to the Austen-Leigh Memoir; D. W. Harding: A Biographical Chronology. The Athlone Press. 1998. Paper. NEW/AS NEW. $50.00