Literary Criticism on Austen’s Persuasion – 2026

On slavery and Persuasion:

    1.    Collins Hemingway, “When a Slave Island Does Not Mean Slavery: An Audit of Mrs. Smith’s Encumbered Funds”; Persuasions 40 (2018), 202-09 — available online:
 https://www.jasna.org/assets/Persuasions/No-40/hemingway.pdf

    2.    Erin M. Goss, “Characterized by Violence: On Goodness and the Profits of Slavery in Persuasion”;  Persuasions 41, no. 2 ((Summer 2021) – available online:
— https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-41-no-2/goss/

On Austen’s literary technique:

3. Marcia McClintock Folsom, “The Final Chapters of Persuasion: Austen’s Passionate Revision”; Persuasions 40 (2018), 15-31. 

4. Patricia M. Ard, “Dashing in Persuasion: The Effects of a Pause”; Persuasions 40 (2018), 230-37.

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