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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Persuasion

Contents

  • Preface
  • The Text of Persuasion
    • [The Original Ending of Persuasion]
  • Backgrounds and Contexts
    • [William Hayley], [On Old Maids]
    • Jane Austen, Letters from 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
  • Modern Critical Views
    • A Walton Litz, New Landscapes
    • Marilyn Butler, [On Persuasion]
    • Tony Tanner, In Between: Persuasion
    • Robert Hopkins, Moral Luck and Judgment in Jane Austen’s 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’sPersuasion
  • Jane Austen: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography