Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen (New Casebooks)

Contributor(s): Clark, Robert(Editor)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994Description: ix, 221 pISBN: 9780333550175 ; 033355017XSubject(s): Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 | Romance fiction, English -- History and criticism | Pride and prejudice (Austen, Jane) | Sense and sensibility (Austen, Jane) | English fictionDDC classification: 823.09
Contents:
Introduction : closing (with) Jane Austen / Robert Clark -- Improving on sensibility / Alastair Duckworth -- Sensibility and Jacobinism / Marilyn Butler -- Sense and silences / Angela Leighton -- Closure and narrative danger / D.A. Miller -- Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form (1) ; Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form (2) / Mary Poovey -- Women, power, and subversion / Judith Lowder Newton -- Necessary conjunctions / Julia Prewitt Brown -- Politics, pride, prejudice and the picturesque / Isobel Armstrong -- Irony and authority / Rachel M. Brownstein -- Can this marriage be saved : Jane Austen makes sense of an ending / Karen Newman.
Summary: 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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Including Index

Introduction : closing (with) Jane Austen / Robert Clark --
Improving on sensibility / Alastair Duckworth --
Sensibility and Jacobinism / Marilyn Butler --
Sense and silences / Angela Leighton --
Closure and narrative danger / D.A. Miller --
Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form (1) ; Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form (2) / Mary Poovey --
Women, power, and subversion / Judith Lowder Newton --
Necessary conjunctions / Julia Prewitt Brown --
Politics, pride, prejudice and the picturesque / Isobel Armstrong --
Irony and authority / Rachel M. Brownstein --
Can this marriage be saved : Jane Austen makes sense of an ending / Karen Newman.

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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