Jane Austen's
Pride & Prejudice  

The following resources will assist you in your exploration of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the Regency Period.

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  Novels for Students (REF 808 NOV Vol. 1)
Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians.
  • Introductory essays that place each novel in its historical and literary context
  • Easy-to-understand discussions of the novel's themes, plot and characters
  • Analysis of the novel's literary construction
  • Age-appropriate critical commentary on the novel's significance for our times
  • A literary glossary that defines difficult terms
  • A timeline that juxtaposes literary and world events
  • Illustrations

 Non-fiction

Literary Companion Series - Readings on Jane Austen (823 REA)
Features an in-depth biography of the author, essays, complete with introduction and summation of themes and insights, annotated table of contents, chronology author's life and career as well as concurrent historical events.

 

Modern Critical Interpretations - Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice (823.7 JAN)
Features "The Analysis of Character" by Harold Bloom in addition to a selection of critical essays that provide in-depth analysis of the character, along with a concise character profile that discusses the character's key personality traits and physical characteristics.
 

   

Pride & Prejudice : A Study in Artistic Economy (823.7 MOL)
Explorer's Austen's ordered, yet complex moral universe where pride and prejudice hinder the development of relationships among an array of characters.  Also explores the author's use of literary language; the revealing idiolects, verbal patterns, and "body language" of the characters and insight into Austen's remarkable technical expertise.
 

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 Online Databases

  Student Resource Center Gold
Student Resource Center Gold Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts

 

Scriber's Writers Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.

The Twayne Authors Series
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.


 Internet Resources

Jane Austen's Life & Work

Austen.com: http://www.austen.com/

Internet Public Library - Jane Austen: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=aus-35

Jane Austen (1775-1817): http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/%7Ematsuoka/Austen.html

Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, by Marilyn Butler (online book): http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5WS97mA18P8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA224&dq=%22pride+and+prejudice
%22,+%22jane+austen%22,+literary+criticism&ots=XJKEJDPrJI&sig=bmCwnV5BJ5MW3BzYxElGCoVQcFk

Jane Austen in the 21st Century - Audio Archive: http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/archive/austen/index.html

Jane Austen Information Page: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

Jane Austen Novel - Pride and Prejudice Overview: http://www.findingjaneausten.com/pride-and-prejudice-novel.htm

Jane Austen Society of North America: http://www.jasna.org/

Links to Literary Allusions in Jane Austen's Novels and Film Adaptations: http://www.pemberley.com/litcomp/litJA.html

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, edited by Robert P. Irvine (online book): http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mxDLY0qL2mAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=%22pride+and+prejudice%22,+%
22jane+austen%22,+literary+criticism&ots=fbFYy-EOFJ&sig=DGeil_kiY0roETHbp6Jf7RfiMUQ#PPP1,M1

The Victorian Literary Studies Archive Hyper-Concordance: http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concordance/austen/
 

The Regency Period

A Glossary of Regency Terms, Places, People, & Things http://www.darcysaga.net/glossary/

A Regency Lexicon http://www.thenonesuch.com/lexicon.html

The Regency Period Glossary http://www.janeausten.org/glossary.asp

Pride and Prejudice: Notes on Education, Marriage, Status of Women, Etc. http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pptopic2.html

Jane Austen's World - Social Customs During the Regency Era: http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/social-customs-and-the-regency-world/

The Regency Era (1812-1830): http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/regency.html

Regency Era Information: http://www.michelesinclair.com/regency_era_info.shtml

Resources, Biography and Regency England (lots of links): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/bookclub/austen/austen_resources.pdf

Regency England http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/money.htm

Novelinks: Pride & Prejudice http://english.byu.edu/Novelinks/Novel pages/Pride and Prejudice.htm

 

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