A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression
Subtitle: Jane Austen's Persuasion
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780874139662
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women Authors; Literary Criticism; 1775-1817; Austen, Jane,; Criticism, Textual; Persuasion; Sources
Description: "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.