- Title
- 'She learned romance as she grew older': Persuasion as the 'natural sequel' to Sense & Sensibility
- Creator
- Craig, Hugh
- Relation
- Sensibilities Vol. 23, p. 5-19
- Relation
- http://www.jasa.net.au/sensextdc01.htm
- Publisher
- Jane Austen Society of Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2001
- 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.
- Subject
- Jane Austen; romance; Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility
- Identifier
- uon:1332
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27054
- Identifier
- ISSN:1323-8418
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