Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
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Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Anne Elliot, whose word had no weight / Stuart M. Tave -- Persuasion; forms of estrangement / A. Walton Litz -- Anne Elliot's dowry; reflections on the ending of Persuasion / Gene W. Ruoff -- Radical pessimism of Persuasion / Julia Prewitt Brown -- Nature of character in Persuasion / Susan Morgan -- In between; Persuasion / Tony Tanner -- Persuasion; the "undeudal tone of the present day" / Claudia L. Johnson -- Persuasion; the pathology of everyday life / John Wiltshire -- Lost in a book; Jane Austen's Persuasion / Adela Pinch -- Satire, sensibility and innovation in Jane Austen; Persuasion and the minor works / Claude Rawson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Presents a series of critical essays discussing the structure, themes, and subject matter of Jane Austin's novel of a young woman who is persuaded not to marry by her godmother.