The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel. It deserves its position by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work. Where the other works move towards a new symbolic and physical home for the heroine, Persuasion begins with her ejection and ends with her understanding that home is not a place at all but an ambiance and an acceptance of change. The volume provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.
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"The excellent recent Cambridge University Press edition...is in all a work of outstanding scholarship. In addition to the text of the novel, it includes an extensive 62 page Introduction, a seven page Chronology, 59 pages of Explanatory Notes, the 'Biographical Notice of the Author' by Austen's brother Henry (which had appeared in the original publication), a transcript of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion plus a facsimile of the manuscript of the cancelled chapters. Jane Austen scholars, in particular, will be grateful for this abundance of material gathered together in one place, and will appreciate the opportunity to compare the cancelled chapters with the final published text."
Sensibilities, Beth Hanley
Sensibilities, Beth Hanley
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Jane Austen's final novel is characterised by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work.
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SIR WALTER ELLIOT, of Kellynch-hall, in Somerset-shire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Captain Wentworth, Lady Russell, Sir Walter, Captain Benwick, Miss Elliot, Captain Harville, Charles Hayter, Lady Dalrymple, Anne Elliot, Colonel Wallis, Miss Musgroves, Miss Anne, Louisa Musgrove, Admiral Croft, Charles Musgrove, Lady Elliot, Miss Carteret, Frederick Wentworth, Uppercross Cottage, West Indies, James Benwick, Miss Hamilton, Admiral Baldwin, Fanny Harville, White Hart New!
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SIR WALTER ELLIOT, of Kellynch-hall, in Somerset-shire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Captain Wentworth, Lady Russell, Sir Walter, Captain Benwick, Miss Elliot, Captain Harville, Charles Hayter, Lady Dalrymple, Anne Elliot, Colonel Wallis, Miss Musgroves, Miss Anne, Louisa Musgrove, Admiral Croft, Charles Musgrove, Lady Elliot, Miss Carteret, Frederick Wentworth, Uppercross Cottage, West Indies, James Benwick, Miss Hamilton, Admiral Baldwin, Fanny Harville, White Hart New!
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