Persuasion: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
ISBN-13:
9780393911534
ISBN-10:
0393911535
Edition:
Second
Author:
Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks Ph.D.
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393911534
ISBN-10:
0393911535
Edition:
Second
Author:
Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks Ph.D.
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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Persuasion: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) (ISBN-13: 9780393911534 and ISBN-10: 0393911535), written by authors
Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks Ph.D., was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2012.
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Description
Jane Austen’s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen’s achievement.
This revised Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition text (dated 1818, but likely issued in late 1817). The editor has spelled out ampersands and made superscript letters lowercased. The novel, which is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations, is followed by the two canceled chapters that comprise Persuasion’s original ending.“Backgrounds and Contexts” collects contemporary assessments of Jane Austen as well as materials relating to the social issues of the day. Included are an excerpt from William Hayley’s 1785 “Essay on Old Maids”; Austen’s letters to Fanny Knight, which reveal her skepticism about marriage as the key to happiness; Henry Austen’s memorial tribute to his famous sister; assessments by nineteenth-century critics Julia Kavanagh and Goldwin Smith, who viewed Austen as an unassuming, sheltered, and “feminine” rural writer; and the perspective of Austen’s biographer, Geraldine Edith Mitten.
The Second Edition emphasizes current critical scholarship, reflecting enormous shifts in our comprehension of Austen’s achievement and opening the door to new ways of thinking about Persuasion and its author. For the first time, we can think complexly about Austen living through the Napoleonic Wars on the Continent and experiencing their political repercussions at home―the same as everyone else in England at that time. Four new essays―by Linda Bree, Sidney Gottlieb, John Wiltshire, and David Monaghan―speak to these new perspectives; those by Gottlieb and Monaghan expand the conversation into film adaptations of the novel.
A Chronology of Austen’s life and work, new to the Second Edition, is included along with an updated Selected Bibliography.
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