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Pride and Prejudice Audiobook Chapter 1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen. First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit have often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy. The title Pride and Prejudice refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797 under the title First Impressions, and was probably in the form of an exchange of letters.

Jane Austen's own tongue-in-cheek opinion of her work, in a letter to her sister Cassandra immediately after its publication, was: "Upon the whole... Jump to the Pride and Prejudice table of contents. Document structure: This Pride and Prejudice e-text is fairly thoroughly hypertexted, but there are no cross references from one part of the main body of the text to another part. Pride and Prejudice Theme of Society and Class. Jane Austen: Overview. The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality. The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality Professor Richard J Evans FBA I began this series of lectures last Autumn with an account of Thomas Bowdler and his prudish editions of Shakespeare (1) and the way they helped shape Victorian attitudes to gender and sexuality.

The popularity of Bowdler’s editions suggested that Victorian culture was characterized by a sharp distinction between men and women, the male public sphere and the female private sphere, the sexually active man and the sexually passive woman, all united in a belief in sexual restraint, however hypocritical, a stern moralism, and a reluctance to discuss or exhibit any form of sexuality in public. Victorian became a common synonym for prudery well before the outbreak of the First World War. ‘Prudery’, as Leslie Stephen (2) remarked, ‘is a bad thing’, but it was not as bad, he went on to say, as ‘the prurience of Sterne, the laxness of Fielding, the unwholesome atmosphere of Balzac’.

They safely walk in darkest ways.