Jane Austen’s Persuasion

• Published in: Res Rhetorica Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 28 - 36
• Main Author: Moseley, Merritt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...