Pride and prejudice : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism /
The story of Elizabeth Bennet and how she deals with the manners, morality, education, marriage issues, and customs of the gentry in early 19th century England. Central to the story is Elizabeth's relationship with the walthy and unmarried Fitzwilliam Darcy, as well as with her sisters. Include...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Fourth edition. |
Series: |
A Norton critical edition
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Summary: |
The story of Elizabeth Bennet and how she deals with the manners, morality, education, marriage issues, and customs of the gentry in early 19th century England. Central to the story is Elizabeth's relationship with the walthy and unmarried Fitzwilliam Darcy, as well as with her sisters. Includes biographical portraits of Austen by family members and--new to this edition--by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The real Jane Austen : a life in small things), fourteen critical essays (eleven of them new to this edition), "Writers on Austen"--a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virgina Woolf, Henry James, and others, and a chronology. |
Carrier Form: | ix, 415 pages ; 22 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-415). |
ISBN: |
9780393264883 (paperback) : 0393264882 (paperback) |
Index Number: | PR4034 |
CLC: |
I561.074 I561.44 |
Call Number: | I561.44/A933-73/4th ed. |
Contents: |
[Technique and moral effect in Jane Austen's fiction] / [Miss Austen] / [The critical faculty of Jane Austen] / No one is alone / Speechless in Austen / Austen's minimalism / Pride and prejudice, a politics of the picturesque / Conjecturing possibilities : reading and misreading texts in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice / Feminisms / [Jane Austen's hero] / Social distinction in Jane Austen / Rent to own : or, What's entailed in Pride and prejudice / Making heritage and history : the 1894 illustrated Pride and prejudice / [Pride and prejudice and zombies] / |