Persuasion: The Collector’s Edition (The Cambridge Jane Austen) (PDF)

By Jane Austen, Janet Todd 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.
Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 8, 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 100943277X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1009432771