The essays collected in this casebook reflect changing opinions of Emma from its earliest reception to its established position in the literary canon. Abbreviations ix Introduction 3(34) Fiona Stafford Opinions of Emma (1816) 37(6) Jane Austen Emma; a Novel. By the Author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, &c. 3 vols. 12mo. London. 1815 43(14) Walter Scott Jane Austen, ob. July 18, 1817 (1917) 57(26) Reginald Farrer Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen (1957) 83(18) Lionel Trilling Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma (1961) 101(22) Wayne C. Booth Emma: ``Woman, Lovely Woman, Reigns Alone'' (1988) 123(26) Claudia L. Johnson Reading Characters: Self, Society, and Text in Emma (1985) 149(20) Joseph Litvak Desire: Emma In Love (1990) 169(20) John Dussinger Emma: The Picture of Health (1992) 189(26) John Wiltshire Men of Sense and Silly Wives: The Confusions of Mr. Knightley (1999) 215(24) Mary Waldron Filming Highbury: Reducing the Community in Emma to the Screen (1999) 239(10) Linda Troost Sayre Greenfield Clueless in the Neo-Colonial World Order (2000) 249(20) Gayle Wald Emma: England, Peace and Patriotism (2000) 269(24) Brian Southam Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form (2000) 293(22) Frances Ferguson Further Reading 315