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2. “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other,” says Emma. Do gender differences constitute an important theme in
Emma?
Beyond individual differences in personality among the characters, how do men and women differ in
Emma?
Emma?
Beyond individual differences in personality among the characters, how do men and women differ in
Emma?
3. At the end of the novel, do Emma and Knightley deserve each other? Why or why not?
4. Even Jane Austen’s most devoted fans agree that she does not directly deal with extreme passions, heroic tragedies, or world-historical events. What is it in her work that can appeal to street-tough guys, jaded sophisticates, and over-educated academics?
For Further Reading
Le Faye, Deirdre.
Jane Austen’s Letters.
Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
BIOGRAPHYJane Austen’s Letters.
Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Honan, Park.
Jane Austen: Her Life.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987. Austen-Leigh, James Edward.
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections.
1870. Edited by Kathryn Sutherland. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Jane Austen: Her Life.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987. Austen-Leigh, James Edward.
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections.
1870. Edited by Kathryn Sutherland. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Tomalin, Claire.
Jane Austen: A Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
COMMENTARY AND CRITICISMJane Austen: A Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Brown, Julia Prewitt.
Jane Austen’s Novels: Social Change and Literary Form.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Jane Austen’s Novels: Social Change and Literary Form.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Butler, Marilyn.
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Copeland, Edward, and McMaster, Juliet, eds.
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Lynch, Deidre, ed.
Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Johnson, Claudia L.
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Poovey, Mary.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Southam, B. C., ed.
Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage.
Vol. 1: 1811—1870; Vol.
Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage.
Vol. 1: 1811—1870; Vol.
2: 1870—1940. London and New York: Routledge and K. Paul, 1968, 1987. Tanner, Tony.
Jane Austen.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. Trilling, Lionel.
“Emma
and the Legend of Jane Austen.” In
Beyond Culture.
Jane Austen.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. Trilling, Lionel.
“Emma
and the Legend of Jane Austen.” In
Beyond Culture.
New York: Viking, 1965.
a
Four-person card game.
b
Mild form of frostbite in which the hands and feet swell from excessive exposure to cold.
c
Ornamental ribbon or rosette worn on a hat.
d
Person who sells cloth. †Gossip.
e
Cultured, refined.
f
Whist is a four-person card game.
g
Book made by folding whole sheets of paper twice to produce four leaves out of each original sheet.
h
See page 70 and endnote 5.
i
Stayed.
j
Health and vacation resort on England’s North Sea coast.
k
Et cetera.
l
Seven nights, or a week.
m
Small carrying case for needlework tools.
n
Short jacket.
o
Encounter (French).
p
Love of one’s country (Latin).
q
One of the smaller keyboard instruments that were manufactured in the course of the development of the modern piano; today the term refers specifically to a small and compact upright piano.
r
Extravagant.
s
It was customary to send food that needed to be cooked in an oven to the local bakery.
t
Busily, done with great attention.
u
Fence.
v
Dear husband (Italian).
w
Sweet cakes made specifically for parties.
x
That is, the Devil.
y
To treat with medicine.
z
Silk-based skin covering applied to minor cuts or bruises; an early form of what today we call an adhesive bandage.
aa
Small drop-leaf table.
ab
Possibly the word “pardon.”
ac
Remainder.
ad
In the open air (Italian).
ae
Agriculture.
af
A cameo is normally a medallion made out of semiprecious stone or shell, with a figure or profile carved in raised relief; often set in a brooch, pendant, or ring.
ag
Type of wine.
ah
Escort charged with preserving propriety.
ai
Poem in which the initial letters of each line spell out a word.
aj
One who cavils—that is, raises petty objections.
ak
Abbreviation for
ultimo
(Latin), meaning “last”; indicates the month preceding the present.
ultimo
(Latin), meaning “last”; indicates the month preceding the present.
al
Woman’s drawstring bag.
am
Sent to boarding school, as a son would be.
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