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  1. 1. Vanity, Grief and Mary Musgrove : A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Jane Austen's Persuasion

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Anneli Olsson Hagman; [2020]
    Keywords : Persuasion; Jane Austen; Mary Musgrove; psychoanalytic literary theory; grief; Freud; defence-mechanisms; repression; projection; unconsious;

    Abstract : The novel Persuasion by Jane Austen stands out from her canon partly due to the explicit reflection of society’s changing view of the British nobility in the early 19th century. The shallowness and alarming lack of responsibility displayed by the Elliot family is a representation of the growing opinion of the landed gentry being useless and not fit to lead the nation. READ MORE