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Informationen zum Autor Robert Morrison Klappentext Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century to the present, including material on the 1995 film adaptation. Extensive introductory comment and annotation complement extracts from critical and contextual texts. The book concludes with fourteen widely studied passages from Pride and Prejudice, reprinted with editorial comment. Zusammenfassung This guide takes the form of a sourcebook, combining reprinted contextual and critical documents with extensive introductory comment and annotation by the volume editor. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Contexts, Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents: From Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (1750) From Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4) From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile (1762) From Joseph Highmore, Essays, Moral, Religious, and Miscellaneous (1766) From James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women (1767) From John Gregory, A Father's Legacy to His Daughters (1774) From Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776) From Frances Burney, Cecilia: or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) From Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) From Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791) From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) 3From Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters (1796): From Amelia Opie, Temper, or Domestic Scenes (1812) From Nina Auerbach, 'Pride and Prejudice' (1978) From Judith Lowder Newton, 'Pride and Prejudice' (1981) From Mary Poovey, 'Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: The Case of Jane Austen' (1984) From Claudia L. Johnson, 'Pride and Prejudice and the Pursuit of Happiness' (1988) From Alison G. Sulloway, 'Voices and Silences: The Province of the Drawing Room and the War of Debates' (1989): From Robert M. Polhemus, 'The Fortunate Fall: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice' (1990) From Allan Bloom, 'Austen, Pride and Prejudice' (1993) From Susan Fraiman, 'The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet' (1993) From Douglas Murray, 'Gazing and Avoiding the Gaze' (1996) From John Wiltshire, 'Pride and Prejudice, love and recognition' (2001) From Steven Scott, 'Making Room in the Middle: Mary in Pride and Prejudice' (2002) The Novel in Performance: From Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin, 'A Conversation with Colin Firth' (1995) From Cheryl Nixon, 'Balancing the Courtship Hero: Masculine Emotional Display in Film Adaptations of Austen's Novels' (1998) From Lisa Hopkins, 'Mr. Darcy's Body: Privileging the Female Gaze' (1998) 3: Key Passages 2: Further Reading Index...
