Pride and Prejudice (Norton Critical Editions)

by Austen, Jane; Gray, Donald (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780393976045
• ISBN10: 0393976041
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Textbook Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

The text of Pride and Prejudice is the 1813 first edition text.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Text of Pride and Prejudice	1	(406)
Backgrounds and Sources
Biography
Biographical Notice of the Author	257	(2)
Henry Austen
Beginning to Write	259	(2)
J. E. Austen-Leigh
Jane Austen's Childhood	261	(1)
Claire Tomalin
Prospects of Marriage	262	(2)
William Austen-Leigh
Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
Deirdre Le Faye
Bath and Southampton	264	(3)
David Nokes
Last Years at Chawton	267	(3)
Park Honan
Letters
To Cassandra Austen (9-10 January 1796)	270	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (14-15 January 1796)	271	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (18-19 December 1798)	271	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (3-5 January 1801)	271	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (12-13 May 1801)	272	(1)
To Martha Lloyd (29-30 November 1812)	272	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (29 January 1813)	273	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (4 February 1813)	273	(1)
To Francis Austen (3-6 July 1813)	274	(1)
To Cassandra Austen (6-7 November 1813)	274	(1)
To Anna Austen (10-18 August 1814)	275	(1)
To Anna Austen (9-18 September 1814)	276	(1)
To Fanny Knight (18-20 November 1814)	276	(2)
To Fanny Knight (30 November 1814)	278	(1)
To James Stanier Clarke (11 December 1815)	279	(1)
To James Edward Austen (16-17 December 1816)	279	(1)
To Fanny Knight (20-21 February 1817)	280	(1)
Early Writing
From Love and Freindship	281	(2)
From A Collection of Letters	283	(6)
Criticism
Technique and Moral Effect in Jane Austen's Fiction	289	(2)
Richard Whately
Miss Austen	291	(2)
Margaret Oliphant
The Critical Faculty of Jane Austen	293	(3)
Richard Simpson
``Regulated Hatred'': An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen	296	(3)
D. W. Harding
On Pride and Prejudice	299	(7)
Dorothy Van Ghent
Pride and Prejudice: The Reconstitution of Society	306	(9)
Alistair Duckworth
Limitations and Definitions	315	(4)
Stuart Tave
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas: Pride and Prejudice	319	(7)
Marilyn Butler
Waiting Together: Pride and Prejudice	326	(12)
Nina Auerbach
Perception and Pride and Prejudice	338	(10)
Susan Morgan
Pride and Prejudice and the Pursuit of Happiness	348	(8)
Claudia L. Johnson
The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet	356	(12)
Susan Fraiman
Circles of Support	368	(8)
Deborah Kaplan
Getting the Whole Truth in Pride and Prejudice	376	(8)
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Darcy on Film
A Conversation with Colin Firth	384	(5)
Sue Birtwhistle
Susie Conklin
Darcy in Action	389	(3)
Cheryl L. Nixon
Class and Money
Interpreters of Jane Austen's Social World: Literary Critics and Historians	392	(7)
David Spring
Radical Jane	399	(4)
Edward Ahearn
A Note on Money	403	(4)
Donald Gray
A Chronology	407	(2)
Jane Austen
Selected Bibliography	409