Harold Bloom ed

Jane Austen / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - New ed. - New York, NY : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009. - vii, 315 p. ; 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical views .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-303) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form: the case of Jane Austen / Mary Poovey -- "A model of female excellence": Anne Elliot, Persuasion, and the vindication of a Richardsonian ideal of the female character / E.B. Moon -- Why women didn't like romanticism: the views of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley / Anne K. Mellor -- Gendering rooms: domestic architecture and literary acts / Cynthia Wall -- Community and cognition in Pride and prejudice / William Deresiewicz -- Mansfield Park: dismantling Pemberley / Jo Alyson Parker -- Colloquy / Ivor Morris -- Emma / Paula Byrne -- "Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick & wicked": Persuasion / Gloria Sybil Gross -- Sense and sensibility and Mansfield Park: "at once both tragedy and comedy" / Patricia Menon -- An excellent heart: Sense and sensibility / Emily Auerbach -- Learning the art of charity in Emma / Sarah Emsley -- Chronology.

ISBN: 9781604133974 (hardcover) 160413397X (hardcover)

LCCN: 2008044616

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women and literature
Love stories, English
International Baccalaureate

LC Class. No.: PR4037 / .J28 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.7