艾玛 Emma
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作者： Jane Austen 著
出 版 社： 华文出版社
出版时间： 2000-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 444印刷时间： 1999/02/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780393972849包装： 平装内容简介
Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介：
STEPHEN M. PARRISH is Goldwin Smith Professor of English,Emeritus, at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1954. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Coleridge's Dejection, The Art of the Lyrical Ballads, Currents of the Nineties in Boston and London, Wordsworth's The Pre- lude 1798-1799, and Yeats's Wild Swans at Coole. He is Gen-eral Editor of The Cornell Concordances, The Cornell Yeats Manuscript Series, and The Cornell Wordsworth, all multi- volume projects, and he is coeditor of two multivolume com'- puter concordances to the works of Freud, one in German,the other in English.
目录
Preface to the Third Edition
The Text of Emma
Backgrounds
JANE AUSTEN'S LIFF; AND HER FICTION
I tenry Thomas AustenBiographical Notice
James E. Austen-LeighMemoir of Jane Austen
Jane AustenLetters to Her Sister, Cassandra
[An Account of a Ball, 1800]
[The Events of a Day, 1805]
[The Events of Two Days, 1813]
From The Watsons
[An Account of a Ball, 1803 or Later]
Virginia Woolf" [The Watsons]
Maggie LaneDaily Life in Jane Austen's England
Meals and Manners
Rich and Poor
JANE AUSTEN ON IIER OWN ART
Jane Austen's Correspondence with J. S. Clarke
J. S. Clarke to Jane Austen [asking her to write a novel about a clergyman]
Jane Austen to J. S. Clarke [explainingwhy she cannot]
J. S. Clarke to Jane Austen [asking again]
J. S. Clarke to Jane Austen [proposing a historical romance]
Jane Austen to J. S. Clarke [decisively refusing]
Jane Austen * Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters
Reviews and Criticism
Sir Walter Scott[Review of Emma]
George Henry LewesThe Lady Novelists
Henry lamesThe Lesson of Balzac
A. C. BradleyJane Austen: A Lecture
Reginald FarrerJane Austen, oh. July 18, 1917
E. M. ForsterJane Austen
A. Walton LitzThe Limits of Freedom: Emma
Robert Alan DonovanThe Mind of Jane Austen
Marilyn Butler"Enmla"
Mary PooveyThe True English Style
Claudia L, JohnsonEmma: "Woman, lovely woman reigns alone."
Ian WattJane Austen and the Traditions of Comic Aggression
Suzanne JuhaszBonnets and Balls: Reading Jane Austen's Letters
John WiltshireEmma
Suzanne FerrissEmma Becomes Clueless
Jane Austen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
