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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2020
      27 July 2006
      ISBN:
      9781316848630
      9780521824187
      9781107620452
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316848630
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.696kg, 480 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 482 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
      Collection:
      Works of Jane Austen
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
    Collection:
    Works of Jane Austen
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    The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel. It deserves its position by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work. Where the other works move towards a new symbolic and physical home for the heroine, Persuasion begins with her ejection and ends with her understanding that home is not a place at all but an ambiance and an acceptance of change. This volume, first published in 2006, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.

    Reviews

    "The excellent recent Cambridge University Press edition...is in all a work of outstanding scholarship. In addition to the text of the novel, it includes an extensive 62 page Introduction, a seven page Chronology, 59 pages of Explanatory Notes, the 'Biographical Notice of the Author' by Austen's brother Henry (which had appeared in the original publication), a transcript of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion plus a facsimile of the manuscript of the cancelled chapters. Jane Austen scholars, in particular, will be grateful for this abundance of material gathered together in one place, and will appreciate the opportunity to compare the cancelled chapters with the final published text."
    Sensibilities, Beth Hanley

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