...Sarah Winter This essay identifies a new subgenre of the novel, the novel of prejudice, which appears at the end of the eighteenth century. Modeling an awareness of prejudice as an ethical and political problem of modernity distinct from the reader identification and empathy associated...

... as patriotism and national character, translation of self, translatable heroines, and the heroine as translator, with reference to Pride and Prejudice , Emma , Northanger Abbey , Mansfield Park , and Persuasion . Through this multiple approach, Austen's fiction becomes visible as deeply involved in metaphorical...

... preoccupations of the society, as well as by the personal history of the author. Having discussed sociocognitive complexity and ideology elsewhere (Zun- shine, “1700–1775 I will focus on genre. Consider Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice published by Marvel Comics...

.... In debates about enfranchisement and representation, how was one to maintain the sovereignty and ethical value of the individual choice made by the autonomous subject, in the face of arguments such as those of Edmund Burke? Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices...

... audience, transmuting both heroine and “period look” in the process. Indeed, Julian Jarrold’s Becoming Jane (Miramax, BBC 2007), Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (Pathé 2004, “Feature Commentary and Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (Focus Features 2005) more freely adapt Austen’s narratives...

... and Prejudice . Ed. Tony Tanner. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 . Austen , Jane . Sense and Sensibility . Ed. James Kinsley. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990 . Bersani , Leo . A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature . Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1969 . Brown , Laura...

... as a world economic power, to the beginning of the twentieth, when this authority was ebbing. Beginning with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), she ends with Henry James’s The Golden Bowl (1904), examining works by Frances Trol- lope, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant along the way. Michie...

... behind him all his ancient prejudices and man- ners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new gov- ernment he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Muter. Here individuals of all nations...

... and is easily manipulated to serve the various sides of the controversy. It also spreads beyond the family to its larger social circle; allegiances constantly shift during the novel, according to the prejudices and the quality and quantity of people taking one stance or the other: Lady Brabazon, whose sister...

... Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature.” American Literature 72 ( 2000 ): 117 –52. Wonham , Henry B. “Plenty of Room for Us All? Participation and Prejudice in Charles Chesnutt’s Dialect Tales.” Studies in American Fiction 26 ( 1998 ): 131 –46. Wonham , Henry B...

... of Austen’s canon, focusing on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. A strength of these readings, as well as the ones that follow, is their striking demonstration of how the fates of Austen’s heroines showcase the virtues of a new kind of masculinity. Marianne Dashwood’s choice between...

... any secrets from you—then that you should turn round upon me and talk about love . . “Georgiana, I will never see him.” “Why not?” “He is a Jew!” “What abominable prejudice—what wicked prejudice! As if you didn’t know that all that is changed now! What possible...

... mainstream popular culture asks us to consider is, “What's so great about Mr. Darcy?” even though Pride and Prejudice is organized around just this question. For its protagonist, coming to desire Mr. Darcy is one and the same as coming to recognize oneself as a member of modern society; seeing him...

...: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987 . Austen , Jane . Pride and Prejudice . 1813. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999 . Bakhtin , Mikhail M . The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Barrin , Jean...

... . ———. Mansfield Park . 1814 . London : Penguin , 2006 . ———. Persuasion . 1817 . Ed. Bree Linda . Peterborough : Broadview , 1998 . ———. Pride and Prejudice . 1813 . Ed. Gray Donald . New York : Norton , 2001 . ———. Sense and Sensibility . 1811 . Ed. Ballaster Ros...

... been most useful in studying the literature of large-scale historical shifts from oral cultures to literacy,” especially “ancient Greek literature and medieval literature” (2)—to a scrutiny of the modern genre of the novel: from Austin’s Pride and Prejudice and Shelley’s Frankenstein in the early...

... of the Westminster Review.20 These attacks on the press reveal Eliot’s equivocal relationship to her audience: she scolds them for their complacency and unrealistic prejudices even while drawing upon and indeed constituting a print community that could only exist in the new media landscape of the 1850s...

... in relation to the first person" (19). I suspect that the most onerous prejudice facing Lucey's project doesn't have to do with same-sex sexuality, but rather with first-person narration. For many readers, it is so taboo to conflate the author and the narrator (arguably since Proust's Contre Sainte...

... of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel . Columbus : Ohio State UP , 1991 . Austen Jane . Pride and Prejudice . London : Penguin , 1972 . Bently Lionel Davis Jennifer Ginsburg Jane C. , eds. Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique . New York...

..., Politics, and Prejudice," Nineteenth-Cenfuy Contexts 20 (1997): 313-34. AMANDA GILROY I NEW MnLENIAL AUSTENS disciplinary technology that facilitated the novel genre's upward mobility. Eve Sedgwick's powerful reading of Sense and Sensibility haunts this chapter...