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Sites about Pride and Prejudice
by Jane
Austen
"First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently
been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel
rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and
later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and
quick wit have often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy. The title
Pride and Prejudice refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth
and Darcy first view each other. "
Characters: Elizabeth Bennett, Darcy, Jane Bennett
Keywords: satire, 18th century England
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Critical sites about Pride and Prejudice
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Community
and Cognition in Pride and Prejudice
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http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v064/64.2deresiewicz.html
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"A host of readers have emphasized her individuality and
imaginative freedom, but in crucial ways she is not free and very little
of an individualist, ways in which her story must be seen, not as an exercise
of freedom, but as an effort to achieve freedom, not as a light-footed
dance away from a community that cannot contain her, but as a struggle
to wake herself out of a community in which she is all too comfortably
embedded. From this point of view, Pride and Prejudice can be seen as Austen's
most deliberate and sustained critique of community--a constructive critique,
since the novel ends by sketching an alternative vision of communal life
that corrects what has been shown to be vicious and preserves what has
been shown to cherishable in it. To trace these processes through the narrative
we should take Austen's hint and look at the community first, Elizabeth's
place within it only afterwards."
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Contains: Content Analysis
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Author: Deresiewicz, William
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From: English Literary History (ELH) 64.2 (1997)
503-535
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Access Restrictions: MUSE
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Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Volume I, Chapter 8: A Close Reading
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http://www.mssc.edu/english/ackiss/pnp_chapter_viii.htm
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A detailed explication placed in line-by-line proximity with
the text; produced by an English professor at Missouri Southern State College.
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Contains: Content Analysis, Character Analysis, Plot
Summary
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Author: David L. Ackiss, Professor of English
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Narrative
Credibility in Rhetoric and Literature: The Case of Jane Austen
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http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/einarssonb/Austen.htm
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"Methods for proving 'narrative truth' (presented throughout
Classical, English Renaissance, and Eighteenth Century rhetoric) can be
applied to the case of 'Wickham vs. Darcy' from Jane Austen's Pride and
Prejudice. A proposed concept, the 'narrative enthymeme,' helps us to see
that Elizabeth Bennet (the 'judge' in this case) should and in a sense
must accept Darcy's narrative version. A narrative enthymeme is defined
as the implied moral principle that motivates an action taken in a forensic
narrative. When this principle matches one already held by the judge, the
narrative argument gains strength. The narrative enthymemes in Darcy's
letter to Elizabeth create an overpowering forensic argument. "
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Contains: Content Analysis
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Author: Robert Einarsson
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From: Conference Paper Abstract published in
the journal Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 28, No. 1, 182. (1993)
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Other (non-critical) sites about Pride and Prejudice
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Jane
Austen on Pride and Prejudice
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http://www.penguinclassics.com/US/world_classics/000047.html
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An excerpt from 'Jane Austen: Mansfield Park', in The New
Pelican Guide to English Literature 5. From Blake to Byron, 1982.
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Author: Lionel Trilling
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From: Penguin Classics
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Pride
and Prejudice
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http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html
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An annotated text of Pride and Prejudice
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Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis
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Author: Henry Churchyard
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Keywords: Jane Austen, satire, Pemberley
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Reader's
Guide: Pride and Prejudice
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http://www.penguinclassics.com/US/resources/readers_guides/r_austen_pride.html
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Includes an introduction to the historical and literary context
of the work, info about the author, an essay, discussion questions, a related
title list, and web links.
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Contains: Plot Summary, Historical Context
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From: Penguin Classics
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Reading
Group Guide: Pride and Prejudice
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679783261&view=rg
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Discussion questions for the work.
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Contains: Content Analysis
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