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Jane Austen Bicentenary essays 1 EDITED BY JOHN HALPERIN PMJDE & PREJUDICE. I CHAPTER I. It is a truth universally acknow¬ ledged, that a single man in posses¬ sion of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. flowever little known tiie feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neigh})ourhood, tliis truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful projierty of some one or other of their daugh¬ ters. “ My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his '-fe oiw S23' lULFEimT; j; (Editor) ■ ■ • ' •‘ ■» .V^- . . Jane Austen bicentenary ess^s. f * ] 1 •tr y • ! ?■ .. S I N % 4 - I* 1 ji; JANE AUSTEN BICENTENARY ESSAYS A-rrep/, avjti <J I- r "a JANE AUSTEN BICENTENARY ESSAYS Edited by JOHN HALPERIN Associate Professor of English University of Southern California CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE LONDON • NEW YORK • MELBOURNE Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London NWl 2db American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022 © Cambridge University Press 1975 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 74-25640 ISBNs 052120709 6 hardcovers 0 52109929 3 paperback First published 1975 Printed and bound in the United States of America by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company 4 CONTENTS I. SOME BACKGROUNDS JOHN HALPERIN Introduction. Jane Austen’s nineteenth-century critics: Walter Scott to Henry James 3 REUBEN A. BROWER From the Iliad to Jane Austen, via The Rape of the Lock 43 STUART M. TAVE Jane Austen and one of her contemporaries 61 JANE AIKEN HODGE Jane Austen and her publishers 75 II. THE NOVELS KATRIN RISTKOK BURLIN ‘The pen of the contriver’: the four fictions of Northanger Abbey 89 EVERETT ZIMMERMAN Admiring Pope no more than is proper: Sense and Sensibility 112 ROBERT B. HEILMAN E pluribus unum: parts and whole in Pride and Prejudice 123 KARL KROEBER Pride and Prejudice: fiction’s lasting novelty 144 R. F. BRISSENDEN Mansfield Park: freedom and the family 156 KENNETH L. MOLER The two voices of Fanny Price 172 BARBARA HARDY The objects in Mansfield Park 180 JOHN HALPERIN The worlds of Emma: Jane Austen and Cowper 197 JOSEPH WIESENFARTH Emma: point counter point 207 A. WALTON LITZ Persuasion: forms of estrangement 221 III. VIEWS AND REVIEWS MARY LASCELLES Jane Austen and the novel 235 MARVIN MUDRICK Jane Austen’s drawing-room 247 DONALD GREENE Jane Austen’s monsters 262
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