Authors: Jane Austen
ISBN-13: 9781147785531, ISBN-10: 1147785538
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Nabu Press
Date Published: March 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jane Austen's delightful, carefully wrought novels of manners remain surprisingly relevant, nearly 200 years after they were first published. Her novels -- Pride and Prejudice and Emma among them -- are those rare books that offer us a glimpse at the mores of a specific period while addressing the complexities of love, honor, and responsibility that still intrigue us today.
Timeless novel from 1811 has won over a new generation of readers (and movie-goers). Intricate plot follows the loves and losses of the recently impoverished Dashwood sisters, straitlaced Elinor and lively Marianne. The story is rich with typical Austen social criticism and exquisitely detailed characters - rich heiresses and fops, true romances and gold-diggers.
Acknowledgments | vii | |
Introduction | ix | |
The Text of Sense and Sensibility | ||
MAP: England in the 19th Century | 2 | |
Facsimile Title Page of the 2nd Edition (1813) | 3 | |
Sense and Sensibility | 5 | |
Contexts | ||
From Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) | 273 | |
Rambler No. 32 (1750) | 275 | |
Idler No. 72 (1759) | 279 | |
From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | 281 | |
From Rights of Man (1791) | 283 | |
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) | 284 | |
From Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen (1782) | 291 | |
From Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) | 296 | |
The Enthusiasm of Sentiment; a Fragment (1798) | 299 | |
From Mademoiselle Panache (1796) | 300 | |
From Belinda (1801) | 306 | |
Criticism | ||
Early Views | ||
From Unsigned Review (February 1812) | 313 | |
Unsigned Review (May 1812) | 315 | |
From British Novelists (1860) | 316 | |
From Miss Austen (1866) | 317 | |
From The Classic Novelist (1894) | 320 | |
From Jane Austen (1917) | 322 | |
Modern Views | ||
First Publication: Thomas Egerton, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice | 325 | |
Sensibility | 333 | |
Sensibility and the Worship of Self | 336 | |
Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: Sense and Sensibility | 338 | |
Sense and Sensibility: Opinions Too Common and Too Dangerous | 344 | |
Wills | 348 | |
The Novel's Wisdom: Sense and Sensibility | 359 | |
Taste: Gourmets and Ascetics | 363 | |
Sense and Sensibility: The Letter, Post Factum | 373 | |
The Personal and the Pro Forma | 382 | |
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl | 391 | |
Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two Film Adaptations | 402 | |
Jane Austen: A Chronology | 411 | |
Selected Bibliography | 413 |