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1、PERSUASIONJANEAUSTENEDITEDBYPATRICIAMEYERSPACKSANORTONCRITICALEDITIONPERSUASIONThetextofthisNortonCriticalEditionisthatofthefirstedition(dated1818butprobablyissuedinlate1817),whichwaspublishedposthumously.Theeditorhasspelledoutampersandsandmadesuperscriptletterslo
2、wercase.Thenovel,whichisfullyannotated,isfollowedbythetwocanceledchaptersthatcomprisePersuasion'soriginalending."BackgroundsandContexts"collectscontemporaryassessmentsofJaneAustenaswellasmaterialsrelatingtothesocialissuesoftheday.IncludedisanexcerptfromWilliamHayl
3、ey's1785"EssayonOldMaids";Austen'sletterstoFannyKnight,whichrevealherskepticismaboutmarriageasthekeytohappiness;HenryAusten'smemorialtributetohisfamoussister;assessmentsbynineteenth-centurycriticsJuliaKavanaghandGoldwinSmith,whosawAustenasanunassuming,sheltered,"f
4、eminine,"ruralwriter;andtheperspectiveofAusten'sbiographer,GéraldineEdithMitten."ModernCriticalViews"reflectsadramaticshiftinthewaythatscholarsviewbothAustenandPersuasion.Increasingly,thefocusisonAusten'smoralpurposefulnessandpoliticalacumenandonPersuasionshistori
5、cal,social,andpoliticalimplications.AvarietyofperspectivesareprovidedbyA.WaltonLitz,MarilynButler,TonyTanner,RobertHopkins,AnnW.Astell,ClaudiaL.Johnson,andCherylAnnWeissman.ASelectedBibliographyisincluded.ABOUTTHESERIES:EachNortonCriticalEditionincludesanauthorita
6、tivetext,contextualandsourcematerials,andawiderangeofinterpretations—fromcontemporaryperspectivestothemostcurrentcriticaltheory—aswellasabibliographyand,inmanycases,achronologyoftheauthor'slifeandwork.COVERILLUSTRATION:ThomasHearne,"ViewofBathfromSpringGarden,"Yal
7、eCenterforBritishArt,PaulMellonCollection.AUTHOR'SPORTRAIT:WatercolorsketchofJaneAustenbyCassandraAusten.ReproducedbycourtesyoftheNationalPortraitGallery,London.ISBN-10:0-393-96018-890000>W.W.NORTONNEWYORKLONDON_780393"960181TheEditorPATRICIAMEYERSPACKSisEdgarF.S
8、hannonProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofVirginia.SheistheauthorofelevenbooksincludingAnArgumentofImages:ThePoetryofAlexanderPope,TheFemaleImagination,T
