| Sense and Sensibility: Authoritative Text Contexts Criticism Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Johnson, Claudia L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 039397751X ISBN-13: 9780393977516 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001042709 |
| Lexile Measure: 560 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.21" W x 8.32" (0.93 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 12795 Reading Level: 8.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Austen, Jane: - Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.Johnson, Claudia L.: - Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s, editor of the Mansfield Park Norton Critical Edition, and author of many articles on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature. |