Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s first published novel and the one now  most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new,  complex readings of the work.The text is that of the 1813 Second  Edition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is  fully annotated and is accompanied by a map of nineteenth-century  England.      "Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom large in  Austen's novel: sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, romantic  attachments, family, and inheritance. Included are writings by Adam  Smith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft,  Hannah Moore, and Maria Edgeworth.      "Criticism" collects six early and twelve modern assessments of the  novel. Contributors include Alice Meynell, Reginald Farrer, Jan Fergus,  Raymond Williams, Marilyn Butler, Mary Povey, Claudia L. Johnson, Gene  Ruoff, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Isobel Armstrong, Mary Favret, Deidre  Shauna Lynch, Eve Sedgwick, and Deborah Kaplan.      A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

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