Elizabeth Bennet
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's major literary characters; Major literary characters.
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.; Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character); Young women in literature.; Courtship in literature.; Heroines in literature.
Description: Analyzes the character Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," discussing her motivations, character flaws, ambitions, and desires.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Irony as discrimination : Pride and prejudice / Marvin Mudrick; title: Elizabeth Bennet / Andrew H. Wright; title: A note on Jane Austen / C.S. Lewis; title: Pride and prejudice / Henrietta Ten Harmsel; title: Pride and prejudice : vitality and a dramatic mode / Howard S. Babb; title: Affection and mortification of Elizabeth Bennet / Stuart M. Tave; title: Intelligence in Pride and prejudice / Susan Morgan; title: Pride and prejudice / Bernard J. Paris; title: The humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet / Susan Fraiman; title: Dwindling into wifehood : the romantic power of the witty heroine in Shakespeare, Dryden, Congreve, and Austen / Donald A. Bloom; title: Wit with a vengeance : Pride and prejudice / Gloria Sybil Gross.