Jane Austen's Persuasion

✍ Scribed by Harold Bloom

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Published posthumously, Jane Austen's last finished novel tells the story of an unexpected revival of romance between Anne Elliot and her first love. Its satirical look at social decorum contrasts with the growing ardency of Anne's feelings. The title, Jane Austen's’s Persuasion, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Jane Austen's’s Persuasion through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Jane Austen's, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Anne Elliot, Whose Word Had No Weight......Page 20
Persuasion: forms of estrangement......Page 44
Anne Elliot’s Dowry: Re.ections on the Ending of Persuasion......Page 58
The Radical Pessimism of Persuasion......Page 70
The Nature of Character in Persuasion......Page 90
In Between: Persuasion......Page 116
Persuasion: The “Unfeudal Tone of the Present Day”......Page 152
Persuasion: The Pathology of Everyday Life......Page 176
Lost in a Book: Jane Austen’s Persuasion......Page 214
Satire, sensibility and innovation in Jane Austen: Persuasion and the minor works......Page 236
Chronology......Page 266
Contributors......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 270
Acknowledgments......Page 274
Index......Page 276