Persuasion

Description:

Persuasion brilliantly combines the pungent ironies of Austen's earlier comedies with a profound Romantic lyricism and plagency. At the heart of the novel is Anne Elliot, a self reliant and preternaturally perceptive heroine in the line of Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice and Emma Woodhouse of Emma. She is persuaded by her Godmother, Lady Russell, not to marry Captain Fredrick Wentworth, a young officer in the British Navy. "Forced in to prudence in her youth, Elliot learns romance as she grows older and Austen unfolds the story of her second chance at love with Wentworth. As the essays collected in this volumen attest, Persuasion subtly entertains a wide array of issues and concerns and as Austen's last completed nove, it offers a unique vantage point from which to survey the contours and character of her career as a whole. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo's White Noise.

Target Audience:

Students of Literature, English Departments & Libraries.