Contents: Introduction / David Monaghan -- 1. Comic Symmetry in Jane Austen's Emma / Bruce Stovel -- 2. Emma and the Dangers of Individualism / Alistair M. Duckworth -- 3. Emma and the Democracy of Desire / Beatrice Marie -- 4. Emma: Good Riddance / D.A. Miller -- 5. Emma as Charade and the Education of the Reader / J.M.Q. Davies -- 6. Reading Characters; Self, Society, and Text in Emma / Joseph Litvak -- 7. Intimacy in Emma / James Thompson -- 8. Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen's Emma / Ruth Perry -- 9. The Self-Contained: Emma / Nancy Armstrong -- 10. Georgic Comedy: The Fictive Territory of Jane Austen's Emma / Paul H. Fry.