No. 40

Message from the President

Claire Bellanti

Editor's Note

Susan Allen Ford

The Final Chapters of Persuasion: Austen’s Passionate Revision

Marcia McClintock Folsom

Self-Delusion and Agitation in Persuasion

John Mullan

Plans of Economy in Persuasion

Linda Zionkowski

“A New Set of Opinions and of Hopes”: Lady Russell’s Education

Kathryn Davis

“Cheerful beyond Her Expectation”: Mrs. Smith, Adam Smith, and Austen

Elaine Bander

In Defense of Inconstancy: The Rewards of “Second Attachments” in Persuasion

Carol L. West

Seduction and Seducers in English Spa Towns: Jane Austen’s Opportunity of Place

Celia A. Easton

“What the Stranger’s Eye Will Seek”: Visiting and Revisiting the Watering Places in Persuasion

Sheila Hwang

The Persuasion of Pounds

Sheryl Craig

Richardson and Austen: Cash Equivalents

Edward Copeland

“His Thoughtless Vanity”: The Comic Flaw in Austen’s Errant Heroes

Mary Beth Tegan

Astonished at Amelia: Amelia Wildenhaim’s Salutary Influence on Fanny Price

Josiah J. Duran

Cousins in Love, Etc.: Unspeakable Desire and Transgressive Endogamy in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Nathan Richards-Velinou

Persuasive Precedent: Austen Rewrites Edgeworth

Robin Runia

When a Slave Island Does Not Mean Slavery: An Audit of Mrs. Smith’s Encumbered Funds

Collins Hemingway

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Reciprocity and Hospitality in Persuasion

Daniel R. Mangiavellano

Dashing in Persuasion: The Effects of a Pause

Patricia M. Ard

“Our Miss Austen”: Jane Austen and Mary Russell Mitford—A New Appraisal

Azar Hussain