Persuasion Study Guide

Author of ClassicNote and Sources

Taro Kuriyama, author of ClassicNote. Completed on September 13, 2008, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Soman Chainani September 30, 2008. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Ann W. Astell. Anne Elliot's Education: The Learning of Romance in Persuasion in Renaissance 40. 1987.

Jane Austen. Persuasion. Ed. Patricia Mayer Spacks. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

Harold Bloom. Introduction in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.

Julia Prewitt Brown. The Radical Pessimism of Persuasion in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.

Anne Carson. Eros the Bittersweet. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Robert Hopkins Moral Luck and Judgment in Jane Austen’s Persuasion in Persuasion. Ed. Patricia Mayer Spacks. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

A. Walton Litz. Persuasion: Forms of estrangement in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.

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Daniel Pool. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone, 1993.

William Shakespeare. Macbeth. Ed. David Benington. New York: Bantam, 1988.

Patricia Meyer Spacks. Introduction in Persuasion. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

Tony Tanner. In Between: Persuasion in Persuasion. Ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

Stuart M. Tave. Anne Elliot, Whose Word Had No Weight in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.

Cheryl Ann Weissman. Doubleness and Refrain in Jane Austen's Persuasion in Persuasion. Ed. Patricia Mayer Spacks. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

John Wiltshire. Persuasion: The Pathology of Everyday Life in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.