Title: A revolution almost beyond expression : Jane Austen's Persuasion /
Authors: Harris, Jocelyn.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Austen, Jane,; Austen, Jane, Sources.; Austen, Jane, Criticism, Textual.; Austen, Jane, Knowledge and learning.; Austen, Jane, Homes and haunts.; Austen, Jane, Appreciation.
Abstract: "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 Persuasion, the author seeks to reconcile the so-called insignificance of her content with her high canonical status, for Austen's interactions with real and imagined worlds prove her to be innovative, even revolutionary."--Jacket.
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.