Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Editor(s): Marcia McClintock Folsom
Pages: xii & 186 pp.
Published: 1993
ISBN: 9780873527149
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular and widely taught works of English literature. Despite its enormous appeal--the novel has been in print almost continuously since its publication in 1812--there are few scholarly works devoted to teaching it. As Marcia McClintock Folsom notes in her introduction to Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice, respondents to an MLA survey on teaching this Austen novel expressed the need for relevant background materials, brief reviews of criticism, and descriptions of pedagogical strategies
This volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," reviews available editions of Pride and Prejudice and works of criticism. The section also includes a handy biographical chronology and a map. In the second part, "Approaches," sixteen teachers offer ideas for presenting the novel in the classroom, such as examining the social and economic conditions of late-eighteenth-century England; discussing biographical details, Austen's unpublished writing (e.g., her juvenilia and letters), and the influence of other works on her fiction; considering the structure and themes of the novel; and analyzing Austen's use of language. This collection is an indispensable resource for teachers of courses ranging from introductory literature surveys and continuing-education classes to graduate-level seminars.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice
PART 1: MATERIALS
Marcia McClintock Folsom
Editions
Criticism
Strategies for Discussion
- A Jane Austen Chronology
- John McAleer
- A Map for Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Langton
PART 2: APPROACHES
Social History and Austen's Life
The Economic Realities of Jane Austen's Day
Edward Copeland
Home at Last: Biographical Background to Pride and Prejudice
Ruth Perry
The "Social History" of Pride and Prejudice
Julia Prewitt Brown
"I Am a Gentleman's Daughter": A Marxist-Feminist Reading of Pride and Prejudice
Johanna M. Smith
Austen's Unpublished Writing and Her Reading
Peevish Accents in the Juvenilia: A Feminist Key to Pride and Prejudice
Susan Fraiman
Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen's Female Friendships
Deborah Kaplan
Literary Allusion in Pride and Prejudice
Kenneth L. Moler
The Influence of Richardson on Pride and Prejudice
Jocelyn Harris
Teaching about Structure and Theme
"Taking Different Positions": Knowing and Feeling in Pride and Prejudice
Marcia McClintock Folsom
Surprise in Pride and Prejudice
Bruce Stovel
Teaching about the Marriage Plot
Pamela S. Bromberg
Family Plots: Pride and Prejudice as a Novel about Parenting
Paula Bennett
Teaching about Language
A Feminist and Formalist Approach to Close Reading
Elizabeth Langland
The Duets of Pride and Prejudice
Marylea Meyersohn
The New Romance in Pride and Prejudice
Susan Kneedler
Talking about Talking
Juliet McMaster
Works Cited and Consulted
Index
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