Download or read book Liberty in Jane Austen's Persuasion written by Kathryn Davis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Austen as a novelist who put her distinctive voice and extraordinary imagination to the service of poets and philosophers. The study explores Austen's account of liberty understood as self-governance and suggests interior liberty as the necessary prerequisite for political liberty.