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Emma is the story of the eponymous Miss Woodhouse who, having lost her close companion Anne Taylor to marriage, sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the town of Highbury. Taking as her subject the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith, she manages to cause misunderstandings with every new tactic she employs. Though precious and spoilt, Emma is charming to all around her and so it takes her some time to learn her lesson and profit from spending less time worrying about how other people should live their lives. The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world's most endearing literary works. The volumes in The Collector's Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.
About the SeriesvAbout This VolumeviiAbout the TextxiPart 1Emma: The Complete Text in Cultural ContextIntroduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts3The Complete Text21Contextual Documents and Illustrations382A Riddle385Robin Adair386from Unfortunate Situation of Females, Fashionably Educated, and Left without a Fortune. (1787)387from Letter to His Son (1750)389from Essays on the Picturesque (1810)390from Our Domestic Policy. No I. (1829)391Opinions of Emma (Ca. 1816)392Crossed Letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra (June 20, 1808)398The Frolics of the Sphynx (1820)399Square Pianoforte (1805)400A Barouche Landau (1805)401A View of Box Hill, Surrey (1733)401The Lincolnshire Ox (1790)402Part 2Emma: A Case Study in Contemporary CriticismA Critical History of Emma405Gender Criticism and Emma425What Is Gender Criticism?425Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography437A Gender Studies Perspective: Claudia L. Johnson, "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in Emma441Marxist Criticism and Emma456What Is Marxist Criticism?456Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography470A Marxist Perspective: Beth Fowkes Tobin, Aiding Impoverished Gentlewomen: Power and Class in Emma473Cultural Criticism and Emma488What Is Cultural Criticism?488Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography503A Cultural Perspective: Paul Delany, "A Sort of Notch in the Donwell Estate": Intersections of Status and Class in Emma508The New Historicism and Emma524What Is the New Historicism?524The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography538A New Historicist Perspective: Casey Finch and Peter Bowen, "The Tittle-Tattle of Highbury": Gossip and the Free Indirect Style in Emma543Feminist Criticism and Emma559What Is Feminist Criticism?559Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography569A Feminist Perspective: Devoney Looser, "The Duty of Woman by Woman": Reforming Feminism in Emma577Combining Perspectives on Emma594Combining Perspectives: Marilyn Butler, Introduction to Emma597Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms615About the Contributors635
