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The Connell Guide To Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
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The Connell Guide To Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
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Despite the astringency of her writing, Austen is often thought of
as the mother of romance. She has made the Regency period
(1811-1820) almost synonymous with modern popular notions of the
romantic. Directly or indirectly, she has influenced romantic
novels by authors such as Georgette Heyer and Daphne du Maurier and
supermarket fodder of the sort published by Mills and Boon. Of all
her books, though, it is Pride and Prejudice which comes closest to
delivering the fairytale story of the ordinary girl who catches and
marries a prince. As Janet Todd shows in this entertaining guide,
however, it is not just the most inventive and ebullient of her
works, but also the one which closes with the heroine most in the
ascendancy and least controlled by either parent or husband. Here,
for the only time in Austen's novels, the romantic dream of
bourgeois individualism taming aristocratic authority actually does
come true. But if, on one level, Pride and Prejudice is a reworking
of the Cinderella story, it is a fiction of much greater depth than
Austen's ironic, self-deprecating description of it as "rather too
light & bright & sparkling" would suggest. "Beneath the
light, bright and sparkling surface," says Edward Neill, "it
investigates the social heart of darkness." In Pride and Prejudice,
Austen explores not just what it is like to be a girl in search of
a suitable husband, but what it is to be human, brilliantly
illuminating the difficulties of the individual living within
society and the necessity constantly to reconcile personal needs
with those of the wider world around one.
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