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Sense and Sensibility

Contents

  • The Text of Sense and Sensibility
  • MAP: England in the Nineteenth Century
  • FACSIMILE: Title Page of the Second Edition (1813)
  • Contexts
  • Adam Smith, From Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
  • Samuel Johnson - Rambler No. 32 (1750)
    • Idler No. 72 (1759)
  • Edmund Burke, From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
  • Thomas Paine, From Rights of Man (1791)
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
  • Hannah More, From Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen (1782)
    • From Strictures on Female Education (1799)
  • Lady’s Magazine (December 1798), The Enthusiasm of Sentiment: A Fragment
  • Maria Edgeworth, From Mademoiselle Panache (1796)
    • From Belinda (1801)
  • Criticism
  • Early Views
    • From Critical Review, Unsigned Review (February 1812)
    • From British Critic, Unsigned Review (May 1812)
    • W. F. Pollock, From British Novelists (1860)
    • "Miss Austen", From Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine (1866)
    • Alice Meynell, From The Classic Novelist (1894)
    • Reginald Farrer, From Quarterly Review (1917)
  • Modern Views
    • Jan Fergus, First Publication: Thomas Egerton and Sense and Sensibility
    • Raymond Williams, Sensibility
    • Marilyn Butler, Sensibility and the Worship of Self
    • Mary Poovey, Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: Sense and Sensibility
    • Claudia L. Johnson, Sense and Sensibility: Opinions Too Common and Too Dangerous
    • Gene Ruoff, Wills Patricia
    • Meyer Spacks, The Novel’s Wisdom: Sense and Sensibility
    • Isobel Armstrong, Taste: Gourmets and Ascetics
    • Mary Favret, Sense and Sensibility: The Letter, Post Factum
    • Deidre Shauna Lynch, The Personal and the Pro Forma
    • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl
    • Deborah Kaplan, Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two Film Adaptations
  • Jane Austen: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography