Jane Austen’s Persuasion

The essay begins by asserting that fiction is persuasion—subtle, indirect, undogmatic, nevertheless it has designs on the reader and is a mode of communication. The example of Jane Austen gives particular illustrations of persuasion as a subject, including self-persuasion (in „Emma”); the easy persu...

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Published inRes Rhetorica Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 28 - 36
Main Author Moseley, Merritt
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Polish Rhetoric Society 01.06.2016
Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society
Subjects
Language and Literature Studies
persuasion
conviction
rhetoric of fiction
communication
resistance
Austen
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Summary:The essay begins by asserting that fiction is persuasion—subtle, indirect, undogmatic, nevertheless it has designs on the reader and is a mode of communication. The example of Jane Austen gives particular illustrations of persuasion as a subject, including self-persuasion (in „Emma”); the easy persuasion of an unresisting subject (in „Sense and Sensibility”); and difficult and unwelcome persuasion (in „Persuasion”).
ISSN:2392-3113
2392-3113
DOI:10.17380/rr.2016.2.3