
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen(Author)
Robert Irvine(Editor)
Broadview Press Ltd
Published on 30. April 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
493 pages
978-1-55111-028-8 (ISBN)
Description
Elizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth forms a prejudice against the proud and distant Mr. Darcy; Darcy's charming friend Charles Bingley falls in love with her sister Jane; and the handsome officer George Wickham forms attachments successively to Elizabeth and to her sister Lydia.
Irvine's extensive introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, and deals with such crucial background issues as early-nineteenth century class relations in Britain, and female exclusion from property and power. The appendices present an unrivaled selection of background contextual documents.
Irvine's extensive introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, and deals with such crucial background issues as early-nineteenth century class relations in Britain, and female exclusion from property and power. The appendices present an unrivaled selection of background contextual documents.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Peterborough
Canada
ISBN-13
978-1-55111-028-8 (9781551110288)
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Persons
Robert P. Irvine, of the Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, has previously published on Smollett and Scott.