Timothy Erwin’s (English) “Austen’s Oceans: New Contexts for Persuasion” appears in the current volume of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, a Rutgers University Press annual. The essay began as a presentation at a Luxembourg meeting called “Water and Sea in Word and Image.”  Erwin reads Austen’s last completed novel through the sublime aesthetics of Edmund Burke and the mystic oceanic feeling of Sigmund Freud.