"Elizabeth and Darcy come to life—rich， historical life—in this brilliant Broadview edition。 Thanks to a compelling introduction and capacious appendices， we can see how their private compromise enacts a public one: old and new wealth merge as the English appropriate their own elite 'as an aesthetic phenomenon'—an appropriation that transforms national identity into a matter of 'culture。' Irvine's Pride and Prejudice matches a carefully annotated text with a critical frame that synthesizes the seemingly disparate strands—political， socio-economic， feminist—of recent Austen criticism。"