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Pride and Prejudice: A Longman Cultural Edition 1/e
Jane Austen
Claudia L. Johnson
Susan J. Wolfson
Published December 2002 by Longman
Copyright 2003, 464 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-321-10507-9
List Price:
$8.00
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Features

  • Part of the new Longman Cultural Editions Series. Other titles available include Frankenstein and Othello; King Lear, Hard Times, and Beowulf, coming soon.
  • A chronology coordinating the events of Austen's life with key events in contemporary history and literary culture is included in the introduction.
  • Footnotes identify cultural references, social codes and rituals, literary allusions, as well as unfamiliar word usages.
  • Illustrations include the title page of the first edition (signed “By the Author of Sense and Sensibility,” which itself was signed anonymously, “By a Lady”); as well as images of the houses, forms of dress, and modes of conveyance that characterize the world of the novel.
  • Contextual items including Austin's letters, an orientation to money; a look at the “marriage market” for young women; discussion of socially favored “female character and conduct;” discussion of male conduct; a passages on the aesthetics of “the picturesque” that helps explain the invisible planning of Darcy's grand, naturally tasteful estate, and the reviews the novel received.
  • Austen's letters and the reviews the novel received upon its publication in 1813, over the next decade as Austen's fame emerged, and in comments from such readers as Lady Byron, William Wordsworth, and Charlotte and Emily Bronte illuminate the text.
  • “A Guide to Further Reading” provides information about biography, editions, critical studies, films, and Web sites.
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.

About Longman Cultural Editions.

About this Edition.

Introduction.

Table of Dates.

Pride and Prejudice (1813).

Volume 1.

Volume 2.

Volume 3.

Jane Austen's Letters.

“To Cassandra Austen,” 2 June 1799.

“To Cassandra Austen,” 20-21 November 1800.

“To Cassandra Austen,” 29 January 1813.

“To Cassandra Austen,” 4 February 1813.

“To Cassandra Austen,” 9 February 1813.

“To Frank Austen,” 3 July 1813.

“To Frank Austen,” 25 September 1813.

“To Anna Austen,” 9 September 1814.

“To James Stanier Clarke,” 11 December 1815.

“To J. Edward Austen,” 16 December 1816.

Contexts.

Money.

Money: From the 1790s to the Regency (1811-1820).

Marriage and the Marriage Market.

Debates in the House of Commons on The Clandestine Marriage Bill.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Emile (1762, 1763).

Revd. James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women (1766, 1795).

Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

Jane Austen, from Emma (1816).

Lord Byron, Don Juan Canto 14. XVIII (1823).

Female Character and Conduct.

Revd. James Fordyce, from Sermons to Young Women (1766, 1777).

Dr. John Gregory, A Father's Legacy to His Daughters (1774).

Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

Male Characters and Conduct.

Alexander Pope, from Epistle IV, To Richard Boyl, Earl of Burlington; Of the Uses of Riches (1731).

Samuel Johnson, Rambler (1750).

The Picturesque and Great Houses.

William Gilpin, from Observations, Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the year 1792, on Several Parts of England (1786) and Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty, On Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape (1792).

John Byng, Rules for Admission to Strawberry Hill.

Reactions to Pride and Prejudice.

First Reviews and Readers.

British Critic XLI (1813).

Critical Review 4/3 (1813).

Anna Isabella Milbanke (1813).

Walter Scott, Quarterly Review (1815).

The Next Generation.

Henry Crabb Robinson.

Richard Whatley, Quarterly Review (1821).

Walter Scott, Journal, 1826-27.

Maria Jane Jewsbury, The Athenaeum.

Charlotte Bronte, letters.

Further Reading.



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