Abstract
‘Manoeuvring’ entered English as a term in the vocabulary of naval and military warfare and this article traces the further movement of ‘manoeuvre’ and its cognates into the language of society and literature, focusing on its use by Jane Austen in her novels, her letters and instances of ‘manoeuvre’ in her own life. Against this concept of social device or strategy at a human level the author places the concept of ‘Providence’, the divine ordering of human affairs and illustrates Jane Austen's recourse to ‘Providence’ in her writing; and finally, the interplay of ‘Providence’ and manoeuvre inPersuasion
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