Magdalen Ki (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is the Programme Director of MA in Literary and Comparative Studies, and Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, psychology, and gothic literature. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Brontë Studies, Poe Studies, English Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Literature Compass, and Mississippi Quarterly. Her latest article "Kin Altruism, Spite, and Forgiveness in Pride and Prejudice" will appear in Philosophy and Literature (2019).

• AcknowledgementsReferences to Jane Austen’s WorksIntroductionChapter 1: The Austen Family and the Altruism ProblemChapter 2: Psychopathy and Sympathy in Northanger AbbeyChapter 3: Costly Signaling and the Handicap Principle in Sense and SensibilityChapter 4: Kin and Kith Altruism in Pride and PrejudiceChapter 5: Survival of the Nicest in Mansfield ParkChapter 6: Pathological Altruism in EmmaChapter 7: Punishment in PersuasionAfterword: The Choice of AltruismBibliographyIndex

Magdalen Ki (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is the Programme Director of MA in Literary and Comparative Studies, and Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, psychology, and gothic literature. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Brontë Studies, Poe Studies, English Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Literature Compass, and Mississippi Quarterly. Her latest article "Kin Altruism, Spite, and Forgiveness in Pride and Prejudice" will appear in Philosophy and Literature (2019).

• AcknowledgementsReferences to Jane Austen’s WorksIntroductionChapter 1: The Austen Family and the Altruism ProblemChapter 2: Psychopathy and Sympathy in Northanger AbbeyChapter 3: Costly Signaling and the Handicap Principle in Sense and SensibilityChapter 4: Kin and Kith Altruism in Pride and PrejudiceChapter 5: Survival of the Nicest in Mansfield ParkChapter 6: Pathological Altruism in EmmaChapter 7: Punishment in PersuasionAfterword: The Choice of AltruismBibliographyIndex

Magdalen Ki (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is the Programme Director of MA in Literary and Comparative Studies, and Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, psychology, and gothic literature. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Brontë Studies, Poe Studies, English Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Literature Compass, and Mississippi Quarterly. Her latest article "Kin Altruism, Spite, and Forgiveness in Pride and Prejudice" will appear in Philosophy and Literature (2019).

• AcknowledgementsReferences to Jane Austen’s WorksIntroductionChapter 1: The Austen Family and the Altruism ProblemChapter 2: Psychopathy and Sympathy in Northanger AbbeyChapter 3: Costly Signaling and the Handicap Principle in Sense and SensibilityChapter 4: Kin and Kith Altruism in Pride and PrejudiceChapter 5: Survival of the Nicest in Mansfield ParkChapter 6: Pathological Altruism in EmmaChapter 7: Punishment in PersuasionAfterword: The Choice of AltruismBibliographyIndex