Reddy, T. Vasudeva. Jane Austen: The Dialectics of Self-Actualizationin Her Novels. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1987.

This book studies Austen's heroines in terms of the choices they make and the development that results from them. Austen's heroines are doing what the Greeks did, trying to realize self-fulfillment in spite of opposition from their social situations, by becoming increasingly self-aware. I think Vasudeva stole my thesis.