Table Of ContentAbout the Series About This Volume About the Text Part One: Emma: The Complete Text in Cultural Context Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts The Complete Text Cultural Documents and Illustrations Dave Garrick, A Riddle Robin Adair Mary Wollestonecraft, from Unfortunate Situation of Females, Fashionably Educated, and Left without a Fortune (1787) Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, from Letter to his Son (1750) Uvedale Price, from Essay on the Picturesque (1810) Robert Southey, from Our Domestic Policy No. 1 (1829) Opinions of Emma (Ca. 1816) Crossed Letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra (June 20, 1808) The Frolics of the Sphinx (1820) Square Pianoforte (1805) A Barouche Landau (1805) George Lambert, A View of Box Hill, Surrey (1733) George Stubbs, The Lincolnshire Ox (1790) Part Two: Emma: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism A Critical History of Emma Gender Studies and Emma What Is Gender Studies? Gender Studies: A Selected Bibliography A Gender Studies Perspective: Claudia L. Johnson , "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in Emma Marxist Criticism and Emma What Is Marxist Criticism? Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Marxist Perspective: Beth Fowkes Tobin , Aiding Impoverished Gentlewomen: Power and Class in Emma Cultural Criticism and Emma What Is Cultural Criticism? Cultural Criticism: A Selective Bibliography A Cultural Critic's Perspective: Paul Delany , "A Sort of Notch in the Donwell Estate": Intersections of Status and Class in Austen's Emma The New Historicism and Emma What Is New Historicism? New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography A New Historical Perspective: Peter Finch and Casey Bowen , "The Tittle-Tattle of Highbury": Gossip and the Free Indirect Style in Emma Feminist Criticism and Emma What Is Feminist Criticism? Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Feminist Perspective: Devoney Looser , "The Duty of Woman by Woman": Reforming Feminism in Emma Combining Critical Perspectives on Emma Combining Perspectives: Marilyn Butler , An Introduction to Emma Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms About the Contributors
SynopsisBeautiful, clever, rich, and well-meaning, Emma Woodhouse thinks she knows best. She can't resist orchestrating other people's lives, and convinced that she's not destined to find true love herself, she instead devotes herself to playing Cupid for others. Absolutely nothing goes according to plan, and Emma ultimately discovers that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart.