内容简介
Once second fiddle to Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,Jane Austen's first published novel, has grown popular among scholarly as well as general audiences and is now scrutinized by a wide range of critics in complex and rewarding interpretations.The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1813 second edition, which includes Jane Austen's latest revisions and corrections. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, tex-tual notes, and a map of early-nineteenth-century Engla
目录
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Text of Sense and Sensibility
MAP: England in the 19'h Century
Facsimile Title Page of the 2nd Edition (1813)
Sense and Sensibility
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 the Modern System. of Female Education (1799)
The Lady's Magazine The Enthusiasm of Sentiment; a Fragment (1798)
Maria Edgeworth From Mademoiselle Panache (1796)
From Belinda (1801)
Criticism
EARLY VIEWS
Critical Review From Unsigned Review (February 1812)
British Critic Unsigned Review (May 1812)
W. F. Pollock From British Novelists