Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice" (Norton Critical Editions), 3rd Edition

A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers.

"Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen's letters—eight of them new to the Third Edition—allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen's world, both in life and in her writing. Samples of Austen's early writing—from the epistolary Love and FriendshipA Collection of Letters—allow readers to trace her growth as a writer as well as to read her fiction comparatively.

"Criticism" features eighteen assessments of the novel by nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentators, six of them new to the Third Edition. Among them is an interview with Colin Firth on the recent BBC television adaptation of the novel. Also included are pieces by Richard Whately, Margaret Oliphant, Richard Simpson, D. W. Harding, Dorothy Van Ghent, Alistair Duckworth, Stuart Tave, Marilyn Butler, Nina Auerbach, Susan Morgan, Claudia L. Johnson, Susan Fraiman, Deborah Kaplan, Tara Goshal Wallace, Cheryl L. Nixon, David Spring, Edward Ahearn, and Donald Gray.

Also included are a Note on Money, a Chronology of Austen's life and work—new to the Third Edition—and an updated Selected Bibliography.

Contents

Preface
The Text of Pride and Prejudice

Background and Sources
 Biography
  Henry Austen • Biographical Notice of the Author
  J. E. Austen-Leigh • [Beginning to Write]
  Claire Tomalin • [Jane Austen's Childhood]
  William Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, and Deirdre Le Faye • [Prospects of Marriage]
  David Nokes • [Bath and Southampton]
  Park Honan • [Last Years at Chawton]
 Letters
  To Cassandra Austen (9–10 January 1796)
  To Cassandra Austen (14–15 January 1796)
  To Cassandra Austen (18–19 December 1798)
  To Cassandra Austen (3–5 January 1801)
  To Cassandra Austen (12–13 May 1801)
  To Martha Lloyd (29–30 November 1812)
  To Cassandra Austen (29 January 1813)
  To Cassandra Austen (4 February 1813)
  To Francis Austen {3–6 July 1813)
  To Cassandra Austen (6–7 November 1813)
  To Anna Austen (10–18 August 1814)
  To Anna Austen (9–18 September 1814)
  To Fanny Knight (18–20 November 1814)
  To Fanny Knight (30 November 1814)
  To James Stanier Clarke (11 December 1815)
  To James Edward Austen (16–17 December 1816)
  To Fanny Knight (20–21 February 1817)
 Early Writing
  From Love and Freindship
   Letter 5th Laura to Marianne
   Letter 6th Laura to Marianne
  From A Collection of Letters

Criticism
 Richard Whately • [Technique and Moral Effect in Jane Austen's Fiction] (1821)
 Margaret Oliphant • [Miss Austen] (1870)
 Richard Simpson • [The Critical Faculty of Jane Austen] (1870)
 D. W. Harding • "Regulated Hatred": An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen (1940)
 Dorothy Van Ghent • On Pride and Prejudice (1953)
 Alistair Duckworth • Pride and Prejudice: The Reconstitution of Society (1971)
 Stuart Tave • Limitations and Definitions (1973)
 Marilyn Butler • Jane Austen and the War of Ideas: Pride and Prejudice (1975)
 Nina Auerbach • Waiting Together: Pride and Prejudice (1978)
 Susan Morgan • [Perception and Pride and Prejudice] (1980)
 Claudia L. Johnson • Pride and Prejudice and the Pursuit of Happiness (1988)
 Susan Fraiman • The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet (1993)
 Deborah Kaplan • Circles of Support (1992)
 Tara Ghoshal Wallace • Getting the Whole Truth in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
 Darcy on Film
  Sue Birtwhistle and Susie Conklin • A Conversation with Colin Firth (1995)
  Cheryl L. Nixon • [Darcy in Action] (1998)
 Class and Money
  David Spring • Interpreters of Jane Austen's Social World: Literary Critics and Historians (1983)
  Edward Ahearn • [Radical Jane] (1989)
  Donald Gray • A Note on Money

Jane Austen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography

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