Susan Reilly (essay date April 2000)
SOURCE: Reilly, Susan. “‘A Nobler Fall of Ground’: Nation and Narration in Pride and Prejudice.” Symbiosis 4.1 (April 2000): 19-34.
[In the following essay, Reilly stresses that, through her portrayal of the ideal and picturesque private estate at Pemberley, Austen reinforces English nationalism and decries the “dangerous enthusiasms of New World democratic ideals.”]
Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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