"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."--

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