A revolution almost beyond expression : Jane Austen's Persuasion

A revolution almost beyond expression : Jane Austen's Persuasion / Jocelyn Harris.

"To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that might otherwise illuminate them. By focusing primarily on the political, historical, satiric, actively intertextual, and deeply sexualized text of Persuas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Jocelyn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817. > Persuasion.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817. > Persuasion > Sources.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817. > Persuasion > Criticism, Textual.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Knowledge and learning.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Homes and haunts.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Appreciation.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817
Persuasion (Austen, Jane)
English literature > 19th century.
Art appreciation
Homes
Learning and scholarship
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins for Persuasion
  • The reviser at work : MS chapter 10 to chapters X-XI (1818)
  • At the White Hart : MS chapter 11 to chapter XII (1818)
  • The history of Buonaparte
  • Domestic virtues and national importance
  • A critique on Walter Scott
  • Prejudice on the side of ancestry
  • The worth of Lyme
  • The white glare of Bath
  • Conclusion: Meaning to have spring again.

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