Artikel
“In a state of alteration, perhaps of improvement” : form and feeling in "Persuasion"
Verfasst von:
Bree, Linda
in:
Wallingford:
2016
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390-400 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bree, Linda |
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| Jahr: | 2016 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| It has long been recognized that Jane Austen’s last complete novel, Persuasion, published posthumously at the end of 1817, concerns the transitional world of the 1810s more directly than her previous fictions do, and also explores issues of the senses, sadness and loss in a way new to her fiction. Through a series of readings of individual scenes and passages, this essay shows how the transitional world and the emotional subjectivity of the heroine Anne Elliot are related, and in particular how a new emphasis on the senses—particularly those of sight, sound and touch—contributes to the powerful poignancy of the novel. At a little more than 80,000 words, Persuasion is only about half the length of Jane Austen's immediately preceding novels,11. The edition of Persuasion edited by Janet Todd and Antje Blank in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006) gives not only an authoritative text of the novel, but also a full account of how it was prepared, published and received, and detailed notes on contemporary social references, word meanings no longer current, and literary allusions. | |
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| Notes: Seiten 399-400 | |
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