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Mansfield Park and Persuasion are notoriously problematic works which have stimulated diverse and often polarised critical readings. This collection illustrates these oppositions and recreates the current lively debate about the novels'' interpretation. Examining the texts in the light of key developments in cultural, historicist and feminist theory, the volume both provides a view of Austen as a traditionalist and simultaneously argues for Mansfield Park and Persuasion as radical works which address contemporary politics of culture and of gender in exciting collocations.>
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Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; J.Simons
Mansfield Park: Ideology and Execution; M.Butler
Good Riddance: Closure in Mansfield Park; D.A.Miller
Jane Austen's Dangerous Charm; N.Auerbach
The Boundaries of Mansfield Park; R.B.Yeazell
The True English Style; M.Poovey
Jane Austen and Empire; E.Said
The Radical Pessimism of Persuasion; J.P.Brown
Jane Austen's Cover Story; S.M.Gilbert & S.Gubar
Persuasion: The 'Unfeudal' Tone of the Present Day; C.Johnson
Loss and the Language of Restitution in Persuasion; L.G.Mooneyham
Doubleness and Refrain in Jane Austen's Persuasion; C.A.Weissman
Persuasion: The Pathology of Everyday Life; J.Wiltshire
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
JUDY SIMONS is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
