Sense and sensibility : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Jane Austen ; edited by Claudia L. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Contributor:

Johnson, Claudia L.

Series:

Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Sense and sensibility.

Austen, Jane.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

England.

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

England--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Love stories.

Physical Description:

xviii, 416 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, 2002.

Summary:

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, textual 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, romantic love, family, and inheritance -- in works by Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, 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 assessments of Sense and Sensibility including. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Contents:

The Text of Sense and Sensibility

MAP: England in the 19th Century 2

Facsimile Title Page of the 2nd Edition (1813) 3

Sense and Sensibility 5

Contexts

From Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) / Adam Smith 273

Rambler No. 32 (1750) / Samuel Johnson 275

Idler No. 72 (1759) 279

From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) / Edmund Burke 281

From Rights of Man (1791) / Thomas Paine 283

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) / Mary Wollstonecraft 284

From Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen (1782) / Hannah More 291

From Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) 296

The Enthusiasm of Sentiment; a Fragment (1798) / The Lady's Magazine 299

From Mademoiselle Panache (1796) / Maria Edgeworth 300

From Belinda (1801) 306

Criticism

Early Views

From Unsigned Review (February 1812) / Critical Review 313

Unsigned Review (May 1812) / British Critic 315

From British Novelists (1860) / W. F. Pollock 316

From Miss Austen (1866) / Anonymous 317

From The Classic Novelist (1894) / Alice Meynell 320

From Jane Austen (1917) / Reginald Farrer 322

Modern Views

First Publication: Thomas Egerton, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice / Jan Fergus 325

Sensibility / Raymond Williams 333

Sensibility and the Worship of Self / Marilyn Butler 336

Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: Sense and Sensibility / Mary Poovey 338

Sense and Sensibility: Opinions Too Common and Too Dangerous / Claudia L. Johnson 344

Wills / Gene Ruoff 348

The Novel's Wisdom: Sense and Sensibility / Patricia Meyer Spacks 359

Taste: Gourmets and Ascetics / Isobel Armstrong 363

Sense and Sensibility: The Letter, Post Factum / Mary Favret 373

The Personal and the Pro Forma / Deidre Shauna Lynch 382

Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 391

Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two Film Adaptations / Deborah Kaplan 402

Jane Austen: A Chronology 411.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-416).

ISBN:

039397751X

OCLC:

47182104