A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087413966X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Colley, SEL 2008)."A valuable study for all who are interested in Austen. Highly recommended" (M.E. E-book: books.google/books/about/A_Revolution_Almost_Beyond_Expressionml?id=ualCfN7DVv0C&redir_esc=y . invaluable to anyone embarking on a study of Persuasion much to offer other readers as well. illuminating Equally strong are the discussions of Lyme Regis and Bath clever premise vivid and detailed convincing Harris's methodology is provocative valuable contribution to the distinguished body of Austen scholarship" (Lorri Nandrea, Eighteenth Century Book Reviews On-Line, 17 August 2009)." underscores once again Jocelyn Harris's eye for reading literat
You will not be disappointed. Elspeth A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression. This is marvellous book which is quite rightly receiving rave reviews in various publications around the world. Forget that Professor Harris is an academic and read the book, as I did, as if it were a novel. You will not be disappointed. Elspeth Sandys
Persuasion sketches a society founded on merit and distributive justice, its turn from woe to joy derived not so much from her own life as from the seasonal resurrections of Shakespeare’s late tragicomedies, her religious beliefs, and the nation’s mixed grief and jubilee after Waterloo. Persuasion is, though, permeated with references to war as well as peace.Harris suggests that Persuasion may respond to Walter Scott’s review of Emma, Austen’s correspondence with Fanny Knight, hostile reviews of Frances Burney’s The Wanderer, contemporary attacks on the novel, and her own defense of fiction in Northanger Abbey. Self-critical in revision, Austen calls on Byron, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Cook to modify wartime constructions of English masculinity such as Southey’s Nelson. Although like Turner she portrays Lyme as sublime and liminally open to change, she attacks Bath, a city shadowed by mortality and corruption, with a savage indignation characteristic of contemporary satire. To praise J
Jocelyn Harris is professor emerita at University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.