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Jane Austen’s Letters.
Edited by Deirdre Le Faye. Third edition (new edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Northanger Abbey.
1818. In vol. 5 of
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Edited by R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923.
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Persuasion.
1818. In vol. 5 of
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Edited by R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923.
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Pride and Prejudice.
1813. Vol. 2 of
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Edited by R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923.
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Sense and Sensibility.
1811. Vol. 1 of
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Edited by R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923.
Austen-Leigh, James Edward. 1870.
A Memoir of Jane Austen.
London: Richard Bentley, 1870. The earliest biography of Austen, written by her nephew.
Fergus, Jan S.
Jane Austen: A Literary Life.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Halperin, John.
The Life of Jane Austen.
1984. Reprint: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Honan, Park.
Jane Austen: Her Life.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
THE WRITING OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Burke, Edmund.
Reflections on the Revolution in France.
1790. Edited by Conor Cruise O’Brien. New York: Penguin Books, 1968. The conservative view of the revolution.
Godwin, William.
The Adventures of Caleb Williams.
1794. New York: Rinehart, 1960. A Jacobin novel.
More, Hannah.
Coelebs in Search of a Wife.
1809. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1995. An anti-Jacobin novel.
Paine, Thomas.
Rights of Man, Being an Answer
to
Mr.
Burke’s
At
tack on the French Revolution. 1791. In
The Rights of Man and Other Writings,
with an introduction by Arthur Calder-Marshall. London: Heron, 1970. The radical view of the revolution.
Wollstonecraft, Mary.
Maria, or the Wrongs of Women.
1797. Edited by Moira Ferguson. NewYork: W. W. Norton, 1975. A Jacobin novel.
RECENT AUSTEN CRITICISM
Butler, Marilyn.
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Argues that Austen was an anti-Jacobin novelist.
Duckworth, Alistair M.
The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971. Provides a history of landscape gardening.
Fraiman, Susan.
Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Feminist discussion of the bildungsroman.
Gay, Penny.
Jane Austen and the Theatre.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Historical and biographical discussion of the theater.
Johnson, Claudia L.
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Argues that Austen was more of a Jacobin.
Litvak, Joseph.
Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Theoretical discussion of the theater.
Miller, D. A.
Jane Austen,
or
the Secret of Style.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Focuses on Austen’s style.
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Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. Focuses on Austen’s structure.
Moretti, Franco.
The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture.
London: Verso, 1987. Economic discussion of the bildungsroman.
Tanner, Tony.
Jane Austen.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. Excellent introduction to the novels.
Said, Edward W.
Culture and Imperialism.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Post-colonial discussion of the country house.
Williams, Raymond.
The Country and the City.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Marxist discussion of the country house.
a
Part of a garden planted to look uncultivated.
c
Adaptation by English writer Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) of
Das Kind der Liebe,
by German playwright August von Kotzebue (1761-1819); see the introduction for a more extensive discussion (pp. xxiii-xxvi).
d
Whist is a card game similar to bridge; speculation is a round game in which players ante up, draw cards, and then buy and sell them to try to make the highest trump.