Persuasion+Resources

=Resources for Persuasion=

Use this page to collect links and information that will help us understand //Persuasion//. Dr. Lake has started the process below. Remember to sign your additions with four tildes (~). It may be helpful for you to offer a brief explanation of your source to help others know what it is and if they should consult it.

Online Resources:
[|//Persuasion// at Pemberley.com]: [|Pemberley.com] is a great resource for all things Jane Austen: you can find out information about her life as well as electronic and free editions of all of her works. With specific regards to //Persuasion//, Pemberley offers the following:
 * [|A searchable online version of //Persuasion//]: useful if you want a quick and easy way to find certain words or characters in the text without thumbing through your hard copy of the book.
 * [|A list of all the uses of the word persuasion (and its variations)]: a quick and easy way to see how often and in what specific contexts Austen integrates the title into the work.
 * [|Genealogy charts for the characters in //Persuasion//:] can't figure out who is related to who? Here is a handy chart.
 * [|A calendar of events in the novel:] need to know what happens when in //Persuasion//? Use this handy calendar.
 * [|A map of Bath (1800)]: trying to figure out where things are when Anne is in Bath? Here's a map! 1310051335

[|Information about //Perusasion// from Wikipedia]: A useful summary, etc. 1310051335

[|Information about //Persuasion// from Sparknotes]: A useful summary, etc. 1310051335

[|Information about //Perusasion// from eNotes]: A useful summary, etc. 1310051335

Selected Print Resources (can be ordered through the library):
Here are just a few books in the library (of the hundreds!) that are good places to start to find information on Austen and //Persuasion//:


 * Copeland, Edward and Juliet McMaster (eds). //The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen// (call number PR4036.C3)
 * Deresiewicz, William. //Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets// (call number PR4038.L5 D47)
 * Galperin, William H. //The Historical Austen// (call number PR4037.G35)
 * Johnson, Claudia L. and Clara Tuite (eds). //A Companion to Jane Austen// (call number PR4037.C65)
 * Knox-Shaw, Peter. //Jane Austen and the Enlightenment// (call number PR4038.P5 K68)
 * Le Faye, Deirdre. //Jane Austen, The World of Her Novels// (call number PR4036.L44 2002)
 * Olsen, Kristin. //All Things Austen: An Encyclopedia of Austen's World// (call number PR4036.A275 2005)
 * Scheuermann, Mona. //Reading Jane Austen//. (call number PR4038.P6 S35)
 * Todd, Janet. //The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen// (call number PR4037.T63)
 * Todd, Janet (ed), //Jane Austen in Context// (call number PR4036.A283) 1310052585