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Persuasion : authoritative text, backgrounds, and contexts criticism / Jane Austen ; edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 (Author). Spacks, Patricia Meyer. (Added Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 0393960188
  • ISBN: 9780393960181
  • Physical Description: xiii, 316 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, [1995]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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