This volume is the first to address Jane Austen´s writings within the traditions of Romanticism. Tuite´s study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen´s juvenilia (Catharine, or The Bower and The History of England), Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Austen´s posthumously published novel, Sanditon, to examine ways in which Romantic-period definitions of nation, culture and literature continue to function in contemporary readings of Austen and her period.