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Persuasion / by Jane Austen ; edited by William Galperin.
LIBRA PR4034 .P4 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Series:
- Longman cultural edition
- A Longman cultural edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion.
- Austen, Jane.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- England.
- Motherless families--Fiction.
- Motherless families.
- Rejection (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Rejection (Psychology).
- First loves--Fiction.
- First loves.
- Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Ship captains--Fiction.
- Ship captains.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pearson/Longman, [2008]
- Summary:
- Affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions present classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Longman Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.
- Contents:
- About Longman Cultural Editions viii
- Table of Dates xviii
- Jane Austen Biography xxix
- Persuasion 1
- Volume I 5
- Volume II 95
- Original Ending 201
- Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice of the Author" 215
- Jane Austen's Letters to Cassandra Austen 222
- Money from the 1790s to the Regency (1811-1820) 248
- On Women and Men 253
- Thomas Gisborne, from An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex 253
- Thomas Gisborne, from An Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain 266
- Lord Byron, from Don Juan, Canto I 270
- Lord Byron, from The Giaour 272
- The Novel and Romance 276
- Frances Burney, Preface to Evelina 276
- Clara Reeve, from The Progress of Romance 279
- Jane Austen, from Northanger Abbey 283
- Reviews and Other Nineteenth-Century Responses 285
- From the Quarterly Review (Walter Scott) and The Champion on Emma 285
- Contemporary Reviews of Persuasion 297
- Anonymous Reviewer, from British Critic 298
- Anonymous Reviewer, from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 301
- Richard Whately, from the Quarterly Review 304
- Later Responses 318
- Anonymous Reviewer, from Retrospective Review 318
- Julia Kavanagh, from English Women of Letters 323.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334).
- ISBN:
- 9780321198228
- 0321198220
- OCLC:
- 123485538
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