Pride and Prejudice: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical Editions Age of Sensibility & Romanticism)

Pride and Prejudice: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical Editions Age of Sensibility & Romanticism)

<p><strong>The Norton Critical Edition of <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to Austen’s most widely read novel.</strong></p> The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations.<br /><br /> This Norton Critical Edition also includes:<br /> · Biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the Fourth Edition, those by Jon Spence (<em>Becoming Jane Austen</em>) and Paula Byrne (<em>The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things</em>).<br /> · Fourteen critical essays, eleven of them new to the Fourth Edition, reflecting the finest current scholarship. Contributors include Janet Todd, Andrew Elfenbein, Felicia Bonaparte, and Tiffany Potter, among others.<br /> · “Writers on Austen”―a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others.<br /> · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.<br />