Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen [Paperback]

This volume offers a selection of important contemporary criticism on two of Jane Austen's most popular and widely-studied novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. The volume includes recent essays from Alastair Duckworth, Marilyn Butler, D.A. Miller, Isobel Armstrong and Karen Newman.Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction: Closing (with) Jane Austen; R.Clark.- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Improving on Sensibility; A.Duckworth.- Sensibility and Jacobinism; M.Butler.- Sense and Silences; A.Leighton.- Closure and Narrative Danger; D.A.Miller.- Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form (1); M.Poovey.- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form (2); M.Poovey.- Women, Power and Subversion; J.L.Newton.- Necessary Conjunctions; J.P.Brown.- Politics, Pride, Prejudice and the Picturesque; I.Armstrong.- Irony and Authority; R.M.Brownstein.- Can this Marriage be saved: Jane Austen makes Sense of an ending; K.Newman.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.ROBERT CLARK is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and founding Secretary of the European Society for the Study of English.