Description
Book SynopsisJane Austen’s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen’s achievement.
Table of ContentsPreface
The Text of Persuasion
The Original Ending of Persuasion
Backgrounds and Contexts
[William Hayley] · [On Old Maids]
Jane Austen · Letters about Persuasion
To Fanny Knight, March 13, [1817]
To Fanny Knight, March 23, [1817]
Henry Austen · Biographical Notice of the Author
[Richard Whateley] · [A New Style of Novel]
Anonymous · Austen’s Characters
Julia Kavanagh · [The Language of Feeling]
Goldwin Smith · From Life of Jane Austen
Geraldine Edith Mitton · From Jane Austen and Her Times
Criticism
A. Walton Litz · New Landscapes
Marilyn Butler · [On Persuasion]
Ann W. Astell · Anne Elliot’s Education: The Learning of Romance in Persuasion
Claudia L. Johnson · Persuasion: The “Unfeudal Tone of the Present Day”
Cheryl Ann Weissman · Doubleness and Refrain in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Linda Bree · Belonging to the Conversation in Persuasion
Sidney Gottlieb · Persuasion and Cinematic Approaches to Jane Austen
Bharat Tandon · [Language and Action in Persuasion]
Tara Ghoshal Wallace · Filming Romance: Persuasion
John Wiltshire · [Anne Elliot’s Consciousness]
David Monaghan · Movement and a Modern Perspective in Dear and Michell’s
Persuasion
Jane Austen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
