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Romancing Jane AustenPersuasion: ‘loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone’

Romancing Jane Austen: Persuasion: ‘loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone’ [It has to be said that Emma and Anne achieve their narrative function as pretty passive recipients of the ‘complete truth’ — and the truth of their present and future ‘perfect happiness’ — in the form of an unexpected message of love. Their particular narrative purpose, the one that is ‘risked’ and found safe in the end, is to receive and ‘understand’ the message that they are loved: ‘On the contents of that letter depended all that this world could do for her!’492 They are quiet recipients in their scenes of revelation.493 Yet Anne’s receptivity is productive of one of the most plausible and beloved happy endings available in the realist tradition. This ending turns on the possibility of the endurance of love against all the odds, and the key to Anne’s release is a message of love that has been risked and then found safe after all.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Romancing Jane AustenPersuasion: ‘loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone’

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Tauchert, Ashley
Romancing Jane Austen — Oct 10, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-54635-0
Pages
137 –155
DOI
10.1057/9780230599697_7
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Abstract

[It has to be said that Emma and Anne achieve their narrative function as pretty passive recipients of the ‘complete truth’ — and the truth of their present and future ‘perfect happiness’ — in the form of an unexpected message of love. Their particular narrative purpose, the one that is ‘risked’ and found safe in the end, is to receive and ‘understand’ the message that they are loved: ‘On the contents of that letter depended all that this world could do for her!’492 They are quiet recipients in their scenes of revelation.493 Yet Anne’s receptivity is productive of one of the most plausible and beloved happy endings available in the realist tradition. This ending turns on the possibility of the endurance of love against all the odds, and the key to Anne’s release is a message of love that has been risked and then found safe after all.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Happy Ending; Narrative Condition; Realist Tradition; Narrative Function; Romance Form

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