Jane Austen's Discourse with New RhetoricJane Austen's Discourse with New Rhetoric identifies major considerations in Jane Austen's novels with those of eighteenth-century Scottish New Rhetoric. Austen uses fictional examples to argue the development of moral understanding in both sexes by educating them in rhetorical subjects found in Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres and George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Her own stance, closely allied to the empiricist thinking from which Campbell's rhetorical philosophy derives, shares with his presentation an infusion of rationalism that separates Campbell's philosophy from David Hume's skepticism. As Austen's novels test the rhetorician's premises, her picture of rhetoric evolves into a representation beyond their limits, and the limits of her own time and place. |
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... eloquence " and " the connection of eloquence with truth and falsehood " mirror Campbell.33 To Campbell , the concept regarding the connection between eloquence and truth or falsehood " was valid in rhetoric because it was valid in ...
... eloquence " and " the connection of eloquence with truth and falsehood " mirror Campbell.33 To Campbell , the concept regarding the connection between eloquence and truth or falsehood " was valid in rhetoric because it was valid in ...
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... eloquence disguises arrogant romantic aggression . Like Campbell , Austen considers the value of eloquent discourse as attached to its purpose . She addresses discourse aimed at the understanding and discourse meant to bring about ...
... eloquence disguises arrogant romantic aggression . Like Campbell , Austen considers the value of eloquent discourse as attached to its purpose . She addresses discourse aimed at the understanding and discourse meant to bring about ...
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... eloquence in rhetoric . Rather than the crude either / or choice offered in Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park offers a view of rhetoric in which , while eloquence alone is not admitted to alter true beliefs and feelings , it can ...
... eloquence in rhetoric . Rather than the crude either / or choice offered in Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park offers a view of rhetoric in which , while eloquence alone is not admitted to alter true beliefs and feelings , it can ...
Contents
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Northanger Abbey A Taste for the Novel | 29 |
Sense and Sensibility Perspicuous | 55 |
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