List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions About This Edition Introduction
Introduction
Table of Dates
Jane Austen Biography
Persuasion
Volume I
Volume II
Original Ending
Contexts
Biographical Notice of the Author by Henry Austen
Jane Austen's Letters to Her Sister, Cassandra
Money From the 1790s to the Regency
On Women and Men
Thomas Gisborne, from An Enquiry Into the Duties of the Female Sex
Thomas Gisborne, from An Enquiry Into the Duties of Men in the Higher
and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britian
Lord Byron, from Don Juan, Canto I
Lord Byron, from The Giaour
The Novel and Romance
Frances Burney, Preface to Evelina
Clara Reeve, from The Progress of Romance
Jane Austen, from Northanger Abbey
Reviews and Other Ninteenth-Century Responses
From the Quarterly Review (Walter Scott) and The Champion on Emma
Contemporary Reviews of Persuasion
Anonymous Reviewer, from The British Critic
Anonymous Reviewer, from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Richard Whatley, from the Quarterly Review
Later Responses
Anonymous Reviewer, from the Retrospective Review
Julie Kavanagh, from English Women of Letters
Further Reading
William Galperin is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he has taught since 1983, specializing in literature of the British Romantic period. He is the author of three books: Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career (1989), The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism (1994) and, most recently, The Historical Austen (2003; paperback, 2005), in addition to numerous essays many of them on Jane Austen. He directed Rutgers’ Center for Cultural Analysis in 2007-08.