Sense and sensibility : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / 1st ed.
作者： Jane Austen ; edited by Claudia L. Johnson.
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Once second fiddle to Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,Jane Austen's first published novel, has grown popular among scholarly as well as general audiences and is now scrutinized by a wide range of critics in complex and rewarding interpretations.The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1813 second edition, which includes Jane Austen's latest revisions and corrections. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, tex-tual notes, and a map of early-nineteenth-century England.
"Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom large in the novel--sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, ro-mantic love, family, and inheritance--in works by Adam Smith,Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Woll-stonecraft, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and an anonymous contributor to Lady's Magazine.
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Once second fiddle to Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,Jane Austen's first published novel, has grown popular among scholarly as well as general audiences and is now scrutinized by a wide range of critics in complex and rewarding interpretations.The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1813 second edition, which includes Jane Austen's latest revisions and corrections. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, tex-tual notes, and a map of early-nineteenth-century England.
"Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom large in the novel--sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, ro-mantic love, family, and inheritance--in works by Adam Smith,Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Woll-stonecraft, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and an anonymous contributor to Lady's Magazine.
In essays on topics such as language, sexuality, power, and movies, "Criticism" collects six early and twelve modern assess-ments of Sense and Sensibility including, among others, those byMargaret Oliphant, Alice Meynell, Reginald Farrer, Jan Fergus,Raymond Williams, Marilyn Butler, Mary Poovey, Gene Ruoff,Patricia Meyer Specks, lsobel Armstrong, Mary Fevret, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Deborah Kaplan, and Claudia L. Johnson.
A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s, editor of the Mansfield Park Norton Critical Edition, and author of many articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.
Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s, editor of the Mansfield Park Norton Critical Edition, and author of many articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Text of Sense and Sensibility
MAP: England in the 19'h Century
Facsimile Title Page of the 2nd Edition (1813)
Sense and Sensibility
Contexts
Adam Smith From Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Samuel Johnson Rambler No. 32 (1750) Idler No. 72 (1759)
Edmund Burke From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Thomas Paine From Rights of Man (1791)
Mary Wollstonecraft From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Hannah More From Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen (1782)
From Strictures on the Modern System. of Female Education (1799)
The Lady's Magazine The Enthusiasm of Sentiment; a Fragment (1798)
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Text of Sense and Sensibility
MAP: England in the 19'h Century
Facsimile Title Page of the 2nd Edition (1813)
Sense and Sensibility
Contexts
Adam Smith From Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Samuel Johnson Rambler No. 32 (1750) Idler No. 72 (1759)
Edmund Burke From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Thomas Paine From Rights of Man (1791)
Mary Wollstonecraft From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Hannah More From Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen (1782)
From Strictures on the Modern System. of Female Education (1799)
The Lady's Magazine The Enthusiasm of Sentiment; a Fragment (1798)
Maria Edgeworth From Mademoiselle Panache (1796)
From Belinda (1801)
Criticism
EARLY VIEWS
Critical Review From Unsigned Review (February 1812)
British Critic Unsigned Review (May 1812)
W. F. Pollock From British Novelists (1860)
Anonymous From Miss Austen (1866)
Alice Meynell From The Classic Novelist (1894)
Reginald Farrer From Jane Austen (1917)
MODERN VIEWS
Jan Fergus First Publication: Thomas Egerton,Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice
Raymond Williams Sensibility
Marilyn Butler Sensibility and the Worship of Self
Mary Poovey Ideological Contradictions and the
Consolations of Form: Sense and Sensibility
Claudia L. Johnson Sense and Sensibility:Opinions Too Common and Too Dangerous
Gene Ruoff Wills
Patricia Meyer Spacks The Novel's Wisdom: Sense and Sensibility
Isobel Armstrong Taste: Gourmets and Ascetics
Mary Favret Sense and Sensibility: The Letter, Post Factum
Deidre Shauna Lynch The Personal and the Pro forma
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl
Deborah Kaplan Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two Film Adaptations
Jane Austen: A Chronology
