Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice Book

	Preface to the Series
	Preface to the Volume
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Materials
	Editions	17
	Criticism	18
	Strategies for Discussion	23
	A Jane Austen Chronology	26
	Map for Pride and Prejudice	29
Pt. 2	Approaches
	Social History and Austen's Life
	The Economic Realities of Jane Austen's Day	33
	Home at Last: Biographical Background to Pride and Prejudice	46
	The "Social History" of Pride and Prejudice	57
	"I Am a Gentleman's Daughter": A Marxist-Feminist Reading of Pride and Prejudice	67
	Austen's Unpublished Writing and Her Reading
	Peevish Accents in the Juvenilia: A Feminist Key to Pride and Prejudice	74
	Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen's Female Friendships	81
	Literary Allusion in Pride and Prejudice	89
	The Influence of Richardson on Pride and Prejudice	94
	Teaching about Structure and Theme
	"Taking Different Positions": Knowing and Feeling in Pride and Prejudice	100
	Surprise in Pride and Prejudice	115
	Teaching about the Marriage Plot	126
	Family Plots: Pride and Prejudice as a Novel about Parenting	134
	Teaching about Language
	A Feminist and Formalist Approach to Close Reading	140
	The Duets of Pride and Prejudice	148
	The New Romance in Pride and Prejudice	152
	Talking about Talking	167
	Contributors and Survey Participants	174
	Works Cited and Consulted	176
	Index	184