About the Author
Frances Ferguson is Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to this present volume, she is editor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Emma. Her critical writings include Wordsworth: Language as Counter-spirit (Yale University Press, 1977), Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (Routledge, 1992), and Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action (University of Chicago Press, 2004), as well as numerous essays on eighteenth century and Romantic literature and literary theory.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations.
About Longman Cultural Editions.
About This Edition.
Foreword.
Table of Dates.
Text of Emma.
Afterword.
Contexts.
Jane Austen’s Letters.
Money.
Charades, Riddles, and Conundrums.
What They Were Reading.
Governesses, Slaves, and Wives.
Early Reactions to Emma.
Further Reading.