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anghraine · 2 years

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I bought some of the Broadview editions of Austen a few years ago at Powell’s, but just got around to reading through the Broadview P&P in particular. It was a bit of a disappointment, but I think that’s probably because I own something in the area of 18 physical copies of P&P, most of which have introductions and commentary, so there wasn’t much new information. I’d have been super into it when I was just getting into Austen criticism in my teens.

There were a few bright spots, though. And the editor shares my opinion that P&P is more likely to be set in the 1790s than the usual 1811-1812 calendar (insofar as it’s set in any specific year at all), so that’s something.

#anghraine babbles #austen blogging #/#//#///#////#/////#a #b #c #d #e #pride and prejudice #i do prefer the norton critical edition and the annotated pride and prejudice (shapard i think?) though both have problems #well not problems. the norton critical edition including excerpts from influential critics IS good #i just think many of those takes are rancid lol #john wiltshire and julia prewitt brown have spectacular takedowns of the stuff i most hate though so my soul knows peace #shapard iirc is a historian and not a literary critic and i think it shows sometimes but the reverse also shows #in usually worse ways. so.#in any case it's mostly good #certainly better than the broadview alas

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