Persuasion: Vol. 1, chapters 7-12

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

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Summary

This section ends with a dangerous fall, but in the meantime we sure get a lot of scenes with people talking in rooms. So this week David, Heidi, and Sean are discussing Anne’s interiority and self-awareness and whether Austen portrays her self-sympathy as virtuous. Plus, discussions touches more on Austen’s complex (and amazing) approach to narrative voice. As always, happy reading!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.8	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.7	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.0	And you're listening to Closer Read the podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Jane Austen's persuasion and on which our intro is the same because a few people are scared of change.
0:16.5	People really seem to like our interest.
0:18.5	That is, see, you took something very different from what I took.
0:22.4	Well, I had to be cynical about it just for the sake of like the theatrics of the show.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:26.5	True.
0:27.6	You know, I find that it means a lot to be constant in one's thoughts and positions and determination.
0:35.3	Once you've set your mind on something to change is really a sign of
0:39.4	a lack of virtue, then be persuaded against it as a moral failing in some people.
0:45.7	Are you trying to like make a, like are you trying to tie things in here?
0:50.9	I'm tying it in. I'm tying it in. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have any prose works to recommend of high moral virtue?
0:57.0	Yes, but I'm not going to tell you which ones.
1:00.0	Keep that close to the vest.
1:02.0	Yeah, that's right.
1:03.0	Jane Austen wouldn't either.
1:04.0	Come on.
1:05.0	Close to the vest is an interesting phrase, by the way, side note.
1:08.0	So we are here to discuss the second half of volume one.
1:13.8	Well, it's a little more than, it's actually much more than half of volume one.
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