Table Of ContentThe Text of Sense and SensibilityMap: England in the Nineteenth Century Facsimile: Title Page of the Second Edition (1813) Contexts: Adam Smith, From Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)Samuel Johnson - Rambler No. 32 (1750)Samuel Johnson - Idler No. 72 (1759)Edmund Burke, From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)Thomas Paine, From Rights of Man (1791)Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)Hannah More, From Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen (1782)Hannah More, From Strictures on Female Education (1799)Lady's Magazine (December 1798), The Enthusiasm of Sentiment: A FragmentMaria Edgeworth, From Mademoiselle Panache (1796)Maria Edgeworth, From Belinda (1801)Criticism:Early Views: From Critical Review, Unsigned Review (February 1812)From British Critic, Unsigned Review (May 1812)W. F. Pollock, From British Novelists (1860)"Miss Austen", From Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1866)Alice Meynell, From The Classic Novelist (1894)Reginald Farrer, From Quarterly Review (1917)Modern Views: Jan Fergus, First Publication: Thomas Egerton and Sense and SensibilityRaymond Williams, SensibilityMarilyn Butler, Sensibility and the Worship of SelfMary Poovey, Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: Sense and SensibilityClaudia L. Johnson, Sense and Sensibility: Opinions Too Common and Too DangerousGene Ruoff, Wills PatriciaMeyer Spacks, The Novel's Wisdom: Sense and SensibilityIsobel Armstrong, Taste: Gourmets and AsceticsMary Favret, Sense and Sensibility: The Letter, Post FactumDeidre Shauna Lynch, The Personal and the Pro FormaEve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jane Austen and the Masturbating GirlDeborah Kaplan, Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two Film AdaptationsJane Austen: A ChronologySelected Bibliography
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Synopsis"Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom large in Austen's novel: sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, romantic attachments, family, and inheritance. Included are writings by Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Moore, and Maria Edgeworth. "Criticism" collects six early and twelve modern assessments of the novel. Contributors include Alice Meynell, Reginald Farrer, Jan Fergus, Raymond Williams, Marilyn Butler, Mary Povey, Claudia L. Johnson, Gene Ruoff, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Isobel Armstrong, Mary Favret, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Eve Sedgwick, and Deborah Kaplan. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included., The text is that of the 1813 Second Edition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by a map of nineteenth-century England. "Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom large in Austen's novel: sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, romantic attachments, family, and inheritance. Included are writings by Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Moore, and Maria Edgeworth. "Criticism" collects six early and twelve modern assessments of the novel. Contributors include Alice Meynell, Reginald Farrer, Jan Fergus, Raymond Williams, Marilyn Butler, Mary Povey, Claudia L. Johnson, Gene Ruoff, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Isobel Armstrong, Mary Favret, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Eve Sedgwick, and Deborah Kaplan. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included., The text is that of the 1813 Second Edition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by a map of nineteenth-century England. Contexts explores the personal and social issues that loom large in Austen's novel: sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, romantic attachments, family, and inheritance. Included are writings by Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Moore, and Maria Edgeworth. Criticism collects six early and twelve modern assessments of the novel. Contributors include Alice Meynell, Reginald Farrer, Jan Fergus, Raymond Williams, Marilyn Butler, Mary Povey, Claudia L. Johnson, Gene Ruoff, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Isobel Armstrong, Mary Favret, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Eve Sedgwick, and Deborah Kaplan. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included., 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., Sense and Sensibility is Austen's first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work.
LC Classification NumberPR4034.S4 2002