A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion

by Jocelyn Harris

Book Overview

To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that might otherwise illuminate them. By focusing primarily on the political, historical, satiric, actively intertextual, and deeply sexualized text of Persuasion, Jocelyn Harris seeks to reconcile the so-called insignificance of her content with her high canonical status, for Austen's interactions with real and imagined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087413966X
• ISBN13: 9780874139662
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"