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Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Edward A. Bloom, Frances Burney, Vivien JonesISBN 0192840312 (0-19-284031-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Henry Jamesby Vivien JonesISBN 0391035193 (0-391-03519-3)
Softcover, Brill Academic Pub
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How to Study a Jane Austen Novelby Vivien JonesISBN 0333413466 (0-333-41346-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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James the Criticby Vivien JonesISBN 0312439881 (0-312-43988-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Vivien Jones , Tony TannerISBN 0141439513 (0-14-143951-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0143036238 (0-14-303623-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0143105426 (0-14-310542-6)
Softcover, Deluxe Penguin Classics - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0140434267 (0-14-043426-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0141439513 (0-14-143951-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0143036238 (0-14-303623-8)
Selected Lettersby Jane Austen, Vivien JonesISBN 0192801848 (0-19-280184-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800by Vivien JonesISBN 0521586801 (0-521-58680-1)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800'Book summary:Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field. [via]
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Women In The Eighteenth Century: Constructions Of Femininityby Vivien JonesISBN 0415034884 (0-415-03488-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Young Lady's Pocket Library, or Parental Monitorby Vivien JonesISBN 1855063824 (1-85506-382-4)
Hardcover, Thoemmes Press
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