Persuasion (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393911535 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her publications include An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope; The Female Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind. Shannon Professor of English at the Un
"I purchased this book for a Women Writers literature class and really enjoyed it. I recommend this" according to Lisa. Again, I purchased this book for a Women Writers literature class and really enjoyed it. I recommend this book. S. Marsh said Best Austen Work. This is by far Austen's best, most mature novel. Sanditon had promise but was unfortunately never finished. Persuasion still ends in marriage, but the heroine must endure years of trials alone and learn to listen to her own sense and intelligence in order to find happiness and security. If any Austen heroine might be labeled a feminist, Anne is the closest to receiving that title.. An Excellent Critical Source for Jane Austin's Persuasion Julianne I found this volume to be very helpful in presenting Persuasion by Jane Austen to my book club. The text was a bit difficult to read because of the font used, but this book contained the original ending as well as the revised one. There were also a number of critical articles included which discussed the book's aspects from a scholar's point of view which were very useful --especially one which discuss
Included are an excerpt from William Hayley’s 1785 “Essay on Old Maids”; Austen’s letters to Fanny Knight, which reveal her skepticism about marriage as the key to happiness; Henry Austen’s memorial tribute to his famous sister; assessments by nineteenth-century critics Julia Kavanagh and Goldwin Smith, who viewed Austen as an unassuming, sheltered, and “feminine” rural writer; and the perspective of Austen’s biographer, Geraldine Edith Mitten. The novel, which is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations, is followed by the two canceled chapters that comprise Persuasion’s original ending. For the first time, we can think complexly about Austen living through the Napoleonic Wars on the Continent and experiencing their political repercussions at homethe same as everyone else in England at that time. Four new essaysby Linda Bree, Sidney Gottlieb, John Wiltshire, and David Monaghanspeak to these new perspectives; those by Gottlieb and Monaghan expand the conversation into film adaptations of the novel. Jane Austen’s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. “Backgrounds and Contexts” collects contemporary assessments of Jane Austen as well as materials relating to the social issues of the day. The editor has spelled out ampersands and made superscript letters lowercased. The Second Edition e
Her publications include An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope; The Female Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind. Berkeley, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. About the Author Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D.