Pride and Prejudice – Second Edition

Jane Austen, Robert P. Irvine

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781460404997
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Elizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and especially on Elizabeth's 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 Irvine's 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 Austen's juvenilia has been added.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Jane Austen and Her Time: A Brief Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Map
• Pride and Prejudice
• Appendix A: From the Juvenilia (1792–93)
• Appendix B: From Austen’s Letters to Her Sister Cassandra
• Appendix C: Contemporary Periodical Reviews of Pride and Prejudice
• Appendix D: From the Conduct Books
• Appendix E: Domestic Tourism
• Appendix F: Burke on the French Revolution
• Appendix G: Discussion of Women’s Role after the French Revolution
• Appendix H: The Militia Regiments on the South Coast of England in 1793–95
• Works Cited and Select Bibliography