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

Author: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.

Descriptionxiii, 316 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:THE TEXT OF PERSUASION [The original ending of Persuasion] -- BACKGROUNDS AND CONTEXTS: [On Old Maids] / [William Hayley] -- Letters about Persuasion: to Fanny Knight / Jane Austen -- Biographical notice of the author / Henry Austen -- [A new style of novel] / [Richard Whateley] -- [Austen's characters] / anonymous -- [The language of feeling] / 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: the learning of romance in Persuasion / Ann W. Astell -- Persuasion: the "unfeudal tone of the present day" / Claudia L. Johnson -- Doubleness and refrain in Jane Austen's Persuasion / Cheryl Ann Weissman -- Jane Austen: a chronology.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-316).

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