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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... role , and the role has perfected her . That role of audience invokes rhetorical questions both old and new in Mansfield Park . The old questions , answered by rhetoricians like Campbell , are familiar ones : which is more important ...
... role , and the role has perfected her . That role of audience invokes rhetorical questions both old and new in Mansfield Park . The old questions , answered by rhetoricians like Campbell , are familiar ones : which is more important ...
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... role of clergy combine when Mary presses Edmund to take Reverend Anhalt's role in Lovers ' Vows . Edmund's clarity of thinking differentiates what is real from what seems real : " It must be very difficult to keep Anhalt from appearing ...
... role of clergy combine when Mary presses Edmund to take Reverend Anhalt's role in Lovers ' Vows . Edmund's clarity of thinking differentiates what is real from what seems real : " It must be very difficult to keep Anhalt from appearing ...
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... role of , 131 , 183 , 209 memory in , role of , 132 , 146 nature versus nurture , 130 rhetoric and , 129-136 of taste , 9 , 37 , 12 , 29 , 41-43 , 52-3 , 57 , 77-9 , 132 time in , role of , 146 wit versus , 184 Elocutionary Movement ...
... role of , 131 , 183 , 209 memory in , role of , 132 , 146 nature versus nurture , 130 rhetoric and , 129-136 of taste , 9 , 37 , 12 , 29 , 41-43 , 52-3 , 57 , 77-9 , 132 time in , role of , 146 wit versus , 184 Elocutionary Movement ...
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Northanger Abbey A Taste for the Novel | 29 |
Sense and Sensibility Perspicuous | 55 |
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