| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 316 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical ed.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316). |
| Contents |
Preface -- Text of persuasion -- Original ending of persuasion -- Backgrounds and contexts -- On old maid / William Hayley -- Letters about persuasion / Jane Austen -- To Fanny Knight / Fanny Knight -- Biographical Notice of the Author / Henry Austen -- New style of novel / Richard Whateley -- Austen's Characters / Anonymous -- Language of fFeeling: Julia Kavanagh / From life of Jane Austen / Goldwin Smith -- From Jane Austen and her times / Geraldine Edith Mitton -- Modern critical views: New landscapes / A. Walton Litz -- On Persuasion / Marilyn Butler -- In between: Persuasion / Tony Tanner -- Moral luck and judgment in Jane Austen's persuasion / Robert Hopkins -- Anne Elliot's Education: Learning of romance in persuasion / Ann W. Astell -- Persuasion: "Unfeudal tone of the present day" / Claudia L. Johnson -- Doubleness and refrain in Jane Austen's persuasion / Cheryl Ann Weissman -- Chronology / Jane Austen -- Selected bibliography. |
| Summary |
Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion.
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England -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Motherless families -- Fiction.
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Ship captains -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Love stories.
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| Subject |
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| Indexed Term |
English fiction. |
| Added Author |
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
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| ISBN |
0393960188 |
| Standard No. |
9780393960181 |
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