Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen

D.W. Harding was a rarity amongst literary critics since his academic career was passed as Professor of Psychology. Yet this professional occupation never obtruded. As Professor Knights writes in his Foreword, as a critic ''he was one of the most sanely subtle or subtly sane) of his generation''. His title essay, ''Regulated Hatred'', altered the course of Austen criticism, and this selection from...