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Title: 'She learned romance as she grew older': Persuasion as the 'natural sequel' to Sense & Sensibility
Author/Creator: Craig, Hugh
Description: I want to explore a comparison between two Jane Austen novels, emphasising the range of her work and the extent of the development across her writing career. Sometimes Austen readers concentrate too much on a collective or composite Austen, it seems to me, as if there was really only one Austen story or Austen world spread over a number of episodes. I will talk about Persuasion, a late novel, in relation to Sense and Sensibility, an early work. I want to argue that the two are neatly contrasting in many ways, almost as if (as my title suggests) Persuasion is a sequel to Sense and Sensibility. More generally, I want to use Sense and Sensibility as a benchmark to measure the achievement of the later novel.
Relation: Sensibilities Vol. 23, p. 5-19
Relation: http://www.jasa.net.au/sensextdc01.htm
Date: 2001
Publisher: Jane Austen Society of Australia
Keyword(s): Jane Austen; romance; Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27054
Identifier: ISSN:1323-8418

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