Jane Austen's Persuasion
By Harold Bloom
2003
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- Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom Contents: Editor's Note Introduction / Harold Bloom Anne Elliot, Whose Word Had No Weight / Stuart M. Tave Persuasion: Forms of Estrangement / A. Walton Litz Anne Elliot's Dowry: Reflections on the Ending of Persuasion / Gene W. Ruoff The Radical Pessimism of Persuasion / Julia Prewitt Brown The Nature of Character in Persuasion / Susan Morgan In Between: Persuasion / Tony Tanner Persuasion: The "Unfeudal Tone of the Present Day" / Claudia L. Johnson Persuasion: The Pathology of Everyday Life / John Wiltshire Lost in a Book: Jane Austen's Persuasion / Adela Pinch Satire, sensibility and innovation in Jane Austen: Persuasion and the minor works / Claude Rawson Chronology Contributors Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Harold Bloom
Author · 172 books
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies.
