Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion

Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion is my hypothesis that I have proved using the tools of New Historicism. New Historicism has become significant in the criticism of Medieval and nineteenth-century British and American literature, and it is making its way into the criticism of modernist literature and eighteenth-century literature as well. The role of New Historicists is to create a more cultural or anthropological criticism, one that is conscious of its own status as interpretation...