Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice/ Emma

This Guide discusses the range of critical reactions to three of Jane Austen's most widely-studied and popular novels. Annika Bautz takes the reader chronologically through the profusion of criticism by selecting key approaches from the immense variety of responses these three Austen novels have provoked over the last two centuries.

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ANNIKA BAUTZ is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth, UK.

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Abbreviations
Introduction
Contemporary Reviews, 1812-1817
Victorian Reviews, c.1865-1880
Early to Mid-Twentieth-Century Critical Responses
Later Twentieth-Century Critical Responses: Feminism
Later Twentieth-Century Critical Responses: Literary, Cultural and Historical Context
The First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
Films and Television Adaptations
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.