Part One : materials -- Editions -- Critical reception -- Films -- Digital resources -- Part Two : approaches -- Introduction / Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire -- Historical context -- Teaching Persuasion in multiple contexts / Peter J. Capuano -- Mapping the chronology of Persuasion / William Nelles -- "The navy who have done so much for us" : professional and domestic ideology in Persuasion / Monica F. Cohen -- The influence of Austen's naval family members on the creation of Persuasion / Sheila Johnson Kindred -- "Her own more elegant and cultivated mind" : Anne Elliot and music / Gillian Dooley -- Persuasion in a women's studies course / Sheryl Craig -- Persuasion as a wartime novel / Paul Westover -- Close reading and the inner life -- Baronets and the baronetage : close reading the opening chapters of Persuasion / Margaret Case -- Writing the life of feeling in Persuasion / Timothy Peltason --Thinking with Austen : literature, philosophy, and Anne Elliot's inner world / Magdalena Ostas -- Teaching about persuasion in Persuasion / Julie Ann Melnyk -- Literary context -- Teahing Persuasion in a transient world / Julia Prewitt Brown -- The "unfeudal tone" in context : teaching Persuasion through Mary Wollstonecraft / Magdalena Nerio -- Persuasion as transition : from "tawny leaves" to the "spring of felicity" / Lynda A. Hall -- "The richness of the present age" : romantic allusions in Persuasion / Anna Dodson Saikin -- Other teaching strategies -- Social class in Persuasion / Catherine Engh -- Debating Persuasion / Melissa J. Ganz -- Teaching Persuasion with the Michell film adaptation / Abigail Burnham Bloom - Nursing in Persuasion : the value of women's work / Sylvia A. Pamboukian -- The medical context : disability, injury, illness, and nursing in Persuasion / Talia Schaffer -- Organizing bodies : teaching metaphors of space in Persuasion / Rebecca Posusta -- Placing Persuasion / Catherine J. Golden.
Summary:
"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Jane Austen's Persuasion, including considerations of social class, gender, philosophy, disability studies, the author's life, and the history of the Napoleonic Wars. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth-century English literature, the history of the novel, and women's writing."-- Provided by publisher.
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