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Sense and Sensibility
is Austen's first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by
historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of
the work. The text is that of the 1813 Second Edition (the origins of
which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully annotated and is
accompanied by a map of nineteenth-century England. "Contexts" explores
the personal and social issues that loom large in Austen's novel:
sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, romantic attachments,
family, and inheritance.
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Fanny Price is unlike
any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up
in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral
fortitude and imperturbability. Mansfield
Park shows Austen as a mature novelist with an almost unparalleled
ability to render character and an acute awareness of her world and how
it was changing.
Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual
and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations-from
contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory-as well
as a bibliography and, in most cases, a chronology of the author's life
and work.
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Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies. At both local and global levels, however, sport has been profoundly affected by the colonial legacy. How are individual nations and different sporting cultures coping with this legacy? What does the end of colonialism mean within particular states and sports?