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Understanding Pride and Prejudice: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)

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Understanding Pride and Prejudice: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)
Debra Teachman
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Pride & Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)

ASIN: 0313301263

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This is the only book about Pride and Prejudice to combine both analysis of the novel and excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen's own time. These materials will help the reader to understand the complexities of both the novel and English society at the beginning of the 19th century, and to compare those issues to contemporary society. Teachman provides commentary and primary materials on inheritance, marriage, and women's roles in society at the time of Austen's life. Excerpts from 18th- and 19th-century etiquette books, moral treatises, histories of women, legal documents and commentary, newspapers, magazines, and collections of letters provide evidence of the social and legal differences between Austen's time and our own--enabling the reader to understand the legal, historical, social, and cultural context of the novel. Each section of this casebook contains study questions, topics for research papers and class discussions, and lists of further reading for examining the issues raised by the novel. The plot of Pride and Prejudice turns on three aspects of early 19th-century English society: marriage as a social institution, inheritance laws and customs, and acceptable roles for women. Following a literary analysis of the novel, the casebook contains documents and commentary on the following topics: inheritance and marriage laws and customs, 18th-century views on marriage, the status of unmarried women, women's education and moral training, and issues in the 1980s and 1990s that can be contrasted with those in the novel. These documents illustrate the social and legal differences between Austen's time and our own that enable the reader to fully understand the archaic details of the novel. They also indicate the continuities between Austen's time and ours in their emphases on love, marriage, the importance of property, and arguments about the role of women. Among the documents are excerpts from Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, advice from a mother to her absent daughters, and a number of letters on the "proper" role of women, their education, and moral training. The final chapter of this book brings into focus the relevancies of Austen's fiction to present day readers and provides discussion of many of the issues of the novel as they are handled by law and the media at the end of the 20th century. This is an ideal companion for teacher use and student research in interdisciplinary, English history, and English literature courses.

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Jane Austen Note Cards
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Binding: Cards

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Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders

ASIN: 0307352374
Release Date: 2007-02-27

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Revive the lost art of letter-writing with a few well-worded sentiments by Jane Austen. Her refreshing take on love, life, and friendship is matched with period illustration on these beautifully designed cards.

16 cards, 4 designs, with 17 envelopes, 4 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches

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Pride and Prejudice (Cliffs Notes)
Marie Kalil
Manufacturer: Cliffs Notes
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Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
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Great Expectations (Cliffs Notes)

ASIN: 0764586076

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

In CliffsNotes on Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's most popular and well-known work, you’ll meet Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters as they navigate the social milieu of provincial 18th-century England. In addition to easy travels through all of the novel's ironic plot twists, you’ll get detailed plot summaries and chapter-by-chapter commentaries to show you how Austen's belief in rationalism triumphs in the union of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. You’ll also discover

Life and background of the author, Jane Austen
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Critical essays about women’s roles in 19th-century Britain and money
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A Resource Center with books, Web sites, and films for further study

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Jane Austen's most popular and well-known work, Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters as they navigate the social milieu of provincial 18th-century England. With ironic plot twists, the young men and women in the novel find love and marriage in forms ultimately appropriate to their respective characters.

Austen's belief in rationalism triumphs in the union of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, as the two come to respect each other's character and forgive each other's faults.

The novel also provides a rich treatment of English society on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution.

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Austen's Emma (Cliffs Notes)
Thomas J. Roundtree
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ASIN: 0822004348

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature.

CliffsNotes on Emma explores a satiric novel that stabs at manners and social classes, all the while delivering entertainment in a mild comic tone and sharing a lesson for the moralist.

Following the heroine’s slow and bumpy growth from self-deception to self-knowledge, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries on each chapter within the three-volume plot structure.

Other features that help you figure out this important work include

Life and background of the author
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Jane Austen enjoyed writing with satiric stabs at manners and social classes. Emma Woodhouse's story is a progression in self-deception, both entertaining in a mild comic tone and a lesson for the moralist. A delightful story retold often by Hollywood.

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Spark Notes Emma
Jane Austen , and SparkNotes Editors
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Emma (Penguin Classics)

ASIN: 1586635115

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Spark Notes Pride and Prejudice
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Literary Companion Series - Pride and Prejudice (paperback edition) (Literary Companion Series)

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Literary Companion Series - Pride and Prejudice (paperback edition) (Literary Companion Series)

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ASIN: 1565108604

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Jane Austen's story of the courtships of the Bennet sisters -- especially that of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy -- has enthralled generations of readers. This collection of critical essays delves into the gentle satire and deeper themes.

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Jane Austen (Bloom's Major Novelist)

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The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
William Faulkner

ASIN: 0791052605

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Putting her in elite company, Harold Bloom suggests Jane Austen will survive with the likes of William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. Critical essays offer insight into Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. A part of our Bloom's Major Novelists series, this volume is designed to present biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the playwright's best-known works. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles include detailed plot summaries of the novel, extracts from scholarly critical essays on the novels, a complete bibliography of the writer's novels, and more.

Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen (Palgrave Master Series)

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Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen (Palgrave Master Series)
Richard Gill , and Susan Gregory
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ASIN: 033394898X

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This is an engaging account of the six most-read Austen novels. It provides a detailed critique of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, linking the significance of the works from the past to the present day in the light of contemporary attitudes to women, tradition, and innovation. The book explores the influence of art, architecture, music, literature, theology, philosophy, history, and politics in the novels, and discusses both traditional and contemporary literary theory, examining Austen's use of wit and irony, and the nuances of her vocabulary.

Emma (MAXNotes Literature Guides) (MAXnotes)

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Emma (MAXNotes Literature Guides) (MAXnotes)
Jean Hart
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