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Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Author(s): Merritt Moseley
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
Keywords: persuasion; conviction; resistance; communication; rhetoric of fiction; Austen

Summary/Abstract: 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”).

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 28-36
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English