Oct 10, 2008
In the following excerpt, Susan Kneedler explains how Pride and Prejudice breaks conventions in its portrayals of relationships between the sexes.
Students, like many critics, question the point of the last volume (the final 19 chapters) of Pride and Prejudice because they already know who will "get" whom. Many feminist scholars portray Austen's happy unions as either sexist, sellouts, or parodies. But critics' declared dissatisfaction with marriage as a narrative resolution is never...
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