Persuasion

Table of contents

• Background: Novel of Manners
• Introduction
• The ‘Scene’
• Movement, Mobility and Modernity
• Time, Change and Continuity
• Silence and Signals
• Women, Authority and Position
• Snobbery, Cinderella and the Market Place
• Unions and Resolutions
• Society Modified

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• Mansfield Park
• Lady Susan

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