This Guide discusses the range of critical reactions to three of Jane Austen's most widely-studied and popular novels. Annika Bautz takes the reader chronologically through the profusion of criticism by selecting key approaches from the immense variety of responses these three Austen novels have provoked over the last two centuries.

Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English at Plymouth University, UK.

Kathryn N. Gray is Reader in Early American Literature at Plymouth University, UK.