A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's PersuasionUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 280 ページ 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 worlds prove her to be innovative, even revolutionary. This book answers common assertions that Austen's content is restricted; that being uneducated and a woman, she could only write unconsciously, realistically, and autobiographically of what she knew; that her national and sexual politics were reactionary; and that her novels serve mainly as havens from reality. Such ideas arose from literal readings of Austen's letters, the family's representation of her as a gentle, unlearned genius, and the assumption that she could not write about the Napoleonic Wars. Persuasion is, though, permeated with references to war as well as peace. Harris suggests that Persuasion may respond to Walter Scott's review of Emma, Austen's correspondence with Fanny Knight, hostile reviews of Frances Burney's The Wanderer, contemporary attacks on the novel, and her own defense of fiction in Northanger Abbey. Self-critical in revision, Austen calls on Byron, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Cook to modify wartime constructions of English masculinity such as Southey's Nelson. Similarly, her critique of Scott's first three novels confirms that her attitude toward class and gender is far from reactionary. |
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... manuscript . But what she calls his " strong , manly , spirited Sketches , full of Variety & Glow " make them sound very much like those of her rival Scott.3 The possibility that she per- forms humility rather than embracing it might be ...
... manuscripts " speak a different story of long apprenticeship , experiment and abandonment , rewriting and cancellation , and even of a restless and sardonic spirit . " 12 That is certainly the case with the manuscript chapters of ...
... manuscript the day after Napoleon was sent to St. Helena ; battles from Trafalgar to St. Domingo play vital roles in the story ; and Captain Wentworth is modelled closely on England's hero , Lord Nel- son . Austen keeps the vital role ...
... manuscript chapters of Persuasion show a writer attentive to nuance and ruthless in revision . Her rewriting of episodes from Scott's first three novels implicitly reveals her national and sexual politics , while settings and ...
... manuscript , she could have revised " Miss Catherine " into Northanger Abbey at any time . 3 In chapter 5 of Northanger Abbey , Austen plunges boldly into the ferocious contemporary debate about the status and value of fiction . Unlike ...
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At the White Hart MS Chapter 11 to Chapter XII 1818 | 63 |
The History of Buonaparte | 73 |
Domestic Virtues and National Importance | 91 |
A Critique on Walter Scott | 109 |
Prejudice on the Side of Ancestry | 130 |
The Worth of Lyme | 146 |
The White Glare of Bath | 160 |
Meaning to Have Spring Again | 188 |
A Thoughtless Gay Set | 195 |
Notes | 202 |
Bibliography | 248 |
Index | 267 |