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This volume offers a selection of important contemporary criticism on two of Jane Austen's most popular and widely-studied novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. The volume includes recent essays from Alastair Duckworth, Marilyn Butler, D.A. Miller, Isobel Armstrong and Karen Newman.
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Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction: Closing (with) Jane Austen; R.Clark
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Improving on Sensibility; A.Duckworth
Sensibility and Jacobinism; M.Butler
Sense and Silences; A.Leighton
Closure and Narrative Danger; D.A.Miller
Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form (1); M.Poovey
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form (2); M.Poovey
Women, Power and Subversion; J.L.Newton
Necessary Conjunctions; J.P.Brown
Politics, Pride, Prejudice and the Picturesque; I.Armstrong
Irony and Authority; R.M.Brownstein
Can this Marriage be saved: Jane Austen makes Sense of an ending; K.Newman
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Info autore
ROBERT CLARK is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and founding Secretary of the European Society for the Study of English.
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This volume offers a selection of important contemporary criticism on two of Jane Austen's most popular and widely-studied novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. The volume includes recent essays from Alastair Duckworth, Marilyn Butler, D.A. Miller, Isobel Armstrong and Karen Newman.
