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.

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

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.