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Elaine Jordan has written her first book with personal reflections
on a wide variety of biblical and spiritual subjects ranging from
the providence of God, to faith, children have free will, situation
ethics, management, etc. A delightful group of short essays by a
Christian author.
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Persuasion (Paperback, New edition)
Jane Austen; Introduction by Elaine Jordan; Notes by Elaine Jordan; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature,
University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or
the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne
Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the
strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the
Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new
fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in
her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain
Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well
past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for
herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.
This book of reflections on life drawn from the Bible discusses a
wide range of human experiences drawn from contemporary and ancient
examples. Easy to read and uplifting. "Elaine Jordan's book
provides exhortation that is needed to impress scriptural lessons.
Both Christians and non-Christians will profit from her book,
Reflections. Most devotional books are almost devoid of Scripture.
Such books tell a little feel-good story and include a token verse
at the end. But Mrs. Jordan's lessons grow out of, and are solidly
based on, Scripture. I am happy to encourage students to be edified
by sister Jordan's Reflections." - Bob Waldron
This book provides a valuable introduction for students and other
readers of Tennyson's poetry and presents an account of its major
themes and concerns. Elaine Jordan examines Tennyson's uneasy
position as a writer of the male middle-class ascendancy and shows
how his poetry reveals ambivalent attitudes towards manliness, war,
and nineteenth-century scientific rationality. In his early Idylls
she finds him experimenting with different political attitudes,
investigating the relationship between individual happiness and
general progress; in his monologues he is caught between motion and
stasis, calling into question the Romantic quest to integrate the
language of self with its object; in The Princess he addresses
contemporary debates on the role and status of women; his In
Memoriam explores loss and relationship through images of the body
and questions of language; Maud deals with images of masculinity
and femininity in relation to to violence and sexual love; and
Idylls of the King, his most imperialist and most pessimistic poem,
highlights his regard for intuition and vision in the face of
scientific 'laws' of nature and society. The study introduces these
themes and shows how they relate to each other.
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