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"As with other titles in this series, this volume presents a variety of material that enhance and elucidate the reading of a classic piece of literature. Students will find the writing style engaging and easy to understand…"
School Library Journal on
Understanding Pride and Prejudice (print)
This is the only book about Pride and Prejudice
to combine both analyses of the novel and excerpts from significant
primary documents of Austen's own time. The author provides commentary
and primary materials on inheritance, marriage, and women's roles
in English society at the beginning of the 19th century.
Excerpts from 18th- and 19th- century etiquette
guides, moral treatises, histories of women, legal documents and
commentary, newspapers, magazines, and collections of letters
provide evidence of the social and legal differences between
Austen's era and our own - enabling the reader to understand
the legal, historical, social, and cultural contexts of the novel.
Each section of this work contains study questions,
topics for research papers and class discussions, and lists of further
reading for examining the issues raised by the novel.
The online sourcebook provides the user access
to:
- E-text
of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and e-texts of six other
Austen works
- Biographical
site on Jane Austen
- Many
illustrations to early publications of Pride and Prejudice
- Genealogical
charts of the families from Pride and Prejudice
- Map
highlighting locales of counties of England, in which most of
the action of Pride and Prejudice occurs
- Regency
Period site of historical faces and places
- E-texts
of: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 (Mary Wollstonecraft);
Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft); A
Father's Legacy to His Daughters (John Gregory); The Rambler
(Samuel Johnson); Enquiry Concerning Political Justice,
1793 (William Godwin); and An Essay to Revive the Antient Education
of Gentlewomen, 1673 (Bathsua Makin)
- Biographical
profiles of Sir William Blackstone, Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft,
and others
- Photo
album from The Making of Pride and Prejudice
- Photo
gallery of Jane Austen film and TV adaptations
- Musical
selections representing the Romantic Period from the BBC/A&E
production of Pride and Prejudice
- Interviews
with actors from the 1995 BBC/A&E production of Pride and
Prejudice
- Glossary
of cultural references and historical idioms from Pride and
Prejudice
- Web-based
study questions
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