num_pages: 285
description: - Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold BloomContents:Editor's NoteIntroduction / Harold BloomAnne Elliot, Whose Word Had No Weight / Stuart M. TavePersuasion: Forms of Estrangement / A. Walton LitzAnne Elliot's Dowry: Reflections on the Ending of Persuasion / Gene W. RuoffThe Radical Pessimism of Persuasion / Julia Prewitt BrownThe Nature of Character in Persuasion / Susan MorganIn Between: Persuasion / Tony TannerPersuasion: The "Unfeudal Tone of the Present Day" / Claudia L. JohnsonPersuasion: The Pathology of Everyday Life / John WiltshireLost in a Book: Jane Austen's Persuasion / Adela PinchSatire, sensibility and innovation in Jane Austen: Persuasion and the minor works / Claude RawsonChronologyContributorsBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
language: English
title: Jane Austen's Persuasion
titlecomplete: Jane Austen's Persuasion
genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Chelsea House Pub