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Persuasion

The Collector's Edition
By Jane Austen
Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen
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A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel; it then... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Persuasion is a powerful portrait of female grief triumphantly overcome. Opening with its heroine lamenting the loss of love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel, it transforms by degrees into a rapturous romantic comedy. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The most intense of Austen's novels, Persuasion begins by painfully reversing courtship tropes but transforms into a rapturous romantic comedy.

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A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine.

It opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel; it then transforms into a rapturous romantic comedy. Against a dysfunctional gentry family corroded by snobbishness, the novel pits professional self-made naval men marked by energy and domestic virtues: the heroine's future lies with them rather than with the landed class into which she was born.

Persuasion is the only Austen novel that ends with the heroine lacking a settled home. Uniquely in Austen's oeuvre, an earlier part of the text survives. This edition includes a transcript, allowing readers to glimpse Austen's creative process.

Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781009432771

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cambridge University Press

Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises

Contributors:

  • Edited by Janet Todd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 288

Collections

Arts & Culture Classic Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction Non-Fiction Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen

About the Author

Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2021). Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.

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