Emma : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives

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Emma : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives

Jane Austen ; edited by Alistair M. Duckworth

(Case studies in contemporary criticism)

Bedford/St. Martin's , Published and distributed outside North America by Palgrave, c2002

  • : us : pbk
  • : us : hardcover
  • : uk

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Includes bibliographical references

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: us : hardcover ISBN 9780312237080

Description

This new edition of Jane's Austen's 19th-century British novel presents the 1816 text along with contemporary critical essays that introduce students to "Emma" from gender, new historical, Marxist, cultural, and feminist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
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: uk ISBN 9780333947104

Description

This new edition of Jane Austen's nineteenth-century novel presents the 1816 text along with contemporary critical essays that introduce students to Emma from gender, new historical, Marxist, cultural, and feminist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

Table of Contents

  • PART 1: EMMA: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT.- Biographical and Historical Contexts.- The Complete Text (1816 first edition).- Cultural Documents.- PART 2: EMMA: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM.- A Critical History of Emma.- Gender Studies and Emma
  • C. Johnson.- Marxist Criticism and Emma
  • B. Fowkes Tobin.- Cultural Criticism and Emma
  • P. Delaney.- The New Historicism and Emma
  • P. Finch and C. Bowen.- Feminist Criticism and Emma
  • D. Looser.- Combining Critical Perspectives on Emma
  • M. Butler.- Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms.- About the Contributors.- Index.

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