Adam McCune provides an overview of the card & word games played by characters in"Emma" and connects them to the social maneuvers of those characters.

Allison Palisoul provides a short history of the masquerade ball and explores its connection to the Gothic novel. ​

Eric Bontempo explores the structure of financial inheritance that greatly affects the lives of the Bennet sisters. ​

Katherine Stein explores the contradictions and paradoxes involved in the role of mothering in the Regency world.

Leslie Rowen explores the Regency military and its effects on smaller communities.