Introduction / Harold Bloom
Imagination of Emma Woodhouse / Stuart M. Tave
Closure of Emma / John Hagan
Love; surface and subsurface / Juliet McMasters
Civilization and the contentment of Emma / Julia Prewitt Brown
Emma and the charms of imagination / Susan Morgan
Importance of being Frank / John Peter Rumrich
Comedy of intimacy / Jan Fergus
Gossip / Patricia Meyer Spacks
Reading characters; self, society, and text in Emma / Joseph Litvak.
The fools in Austen's Emma / Maaja A. Stewart
The match-maker: Emma / Tony Tanner
Figure and ground: the receding heroine in Jane Austen's Emma / Barbara Z. Thaden
Adoring the girl next door: geography in Austen's novels / Susan Morgan
The last pages of Emma: Austen's Epithalamium / Sarah Emsley
Why do they talk so much? how can we stand it? / Isobel Grundy
Comfort, health and creativity: a reading of Emma / John Wiltshire
The enigma of Harriet Smith / Ivor Morris
Emma: the geography of a mind / Juliet McMaster
Beyond the romantic gypsy: narrative disruptions and ironies in Austen's Emma / Laura Mooneyham White.