Elizabeth Bennet is Austens most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austens most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and especially on Elizabeths prejudice against the proud and distant Fitzwilliam Darcy. Pride and Prejudice is a romantic comedy that has been read as conservative and feminist, reactionary and revolutionary, rooted in the time of its composition and deliberately timeless. Robert Irvines introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, dealing with such crucial background issues as class relations in Britain, female exclusion from property and power, and the impact of the French Revolution. The introduction and annotations have been expanded and updated for the new edition, and a new appendix of Austens juvenilia has been added.

Binding: Paperback;448 pages; Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd; Classification: DSBF; Weight: 618 g; Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 25

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