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Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice /

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Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice /

[Book]

edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Philadelphia :

Chelsea House Publishers,

©2004.

122 pages ;

23 cm.

Bloom's guides

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111) and index.

Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- E.M. Halliday on narrative perspective -- Stuart Tave on "affection" -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar on women in Austen -- Tony Tanner on defining "love" -- Laura G. Mooneyham on Darcy and Elizabeth as hero and heroine -- Anita G. Gorman on descriptions of Elizabeth Bennet's appearance -- Anne Crippen Ruderman on Mr. Darcy's virtues -- Juliet McMaster on Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth Bennet -- Allison Thompson on dancing and balls in Austen's time -- H. Elizabeth Ellington on landscape and the filming -- Donald Gray on money -- Efraht Marguliet on Elizabeth's petticoat -- Works by Jane Austen.

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If the authentic test for a great novel is rereading, and the joys of yet further rereadings, then Pride and Prejudice can rival any novel ever written. Though Jane Austen, unlike Shakespeare, practices an art of rigorous exclusion, she seems to me finally the most Shakespearean novelist in the language. When Shakespeare wishes to, he can make all his personages, major and minor, speak in voices entirely their own, self-consistent and utterly different from one another. Since voice in both writers is an image of personality and also of character, the reader of Austen encounters an astonishing variety of selves in her socially confined world. Though that world is essentially a secularized culture, the moral vision dominating it remains that of the Protestant sensibility. Austen's heroines waver in one judgment or another, but they hold fast to the right of private judgment as the self's fortress. What they call "affection" we term "love," of the enduring rather than the Romantic variety, and when they judge a man to be "amiable," it is akin to whatever superlative each of us may favor for an admirable, human person. Where they may differ from us, but more in degree than in kind, is in their profound reliance upon the soul's exchanges of mutual esteem with other souls. In Pride and Prejudice and Emma in particular, your accuracy in estimating the nature and value of another soul is intimately allied to the legitimacy of your self-esteem, your valid pride. - Introduction.

Presents excerpts of critical essays on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," along with a biography of the author, a plot summary, an annotated bibliography, and other study tools.

Pride and prejudice

Austen, Jane,1775-1817., Pride and prejudice-- Examinations

Austen, Jane,1775-1817., Pride and prejudice-- Examinations

Pride and prejudice (Austen, Jane)

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817-- Pride and prejudice-- Examinations-- Study guides.

Examinations.

Bloom, Harold.

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