Pride and Prejudice
Publisher: Broadview Literary Texts
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Peterborough, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9781551110288
Copyright date: 2002
Description: Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen’s most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth forms a prejudice against the proud and distant Mr. Darcy; Darcy’s charming friend Charles Bingley falls in love with her sister Jane; and the handsome officer George Wickham forms attachments successively to Elizabeth and to her sister Lydia.

Irvine’s extensive introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, and deals with such crucial background issues as early-nineteenth century class relations in Britain, and female exclusion from property and power. The appendices present an unrivaled selection of background contextual documents.
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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Jane Austen and her Time: a Brief Chronology; title: A Note on the Text; title: Pride and Prejudice; title: Appendix A: Parliamentary Debate on the Marriage Act of 1754; title: Appendix B: From the Conduct Books; title: James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women; title: John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy (1774); title: Appendix C: Burke on the French Revolution (1790); title: Appendix D: Discussion of Women’s Role after the French Revolution; title: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792); title: Hannah More, Strictures on Female Education (1799); title: Appendix E: Domestic Tourism; title: William Watts, Seats of the Nobility (1779); title: William Bray, Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire (1777); title: Appendix F: The Militia Regiments on the South Coast of England in 1793-95; title: Women; title: Officers; title: Men; title: Appendix G: Austen’s Letters to her Sister; title: Appendix H: Contemporary Periodical Reviews of Pride and Prejudice; title: The British Critic; title: The Critical Review; title: Select Bibliography