Pride and Prejudice: narration, class and gender

What this note covers

1. Read the opening as a social argument
2. Focalisation makes Elizabeth persuasive and fallible
3. Dialogue stages rank as everyday performance
4. Property and place organise class judgement
5. Gendered choices must be judged within unequal risks
6. The marriage ending changes judgement, not the whole world

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