Jane Austen's Discourse with New Rhetoric

Author : Lynn R Rigberg,Regina L Hewitt

Hardback

Published : Tuesday 1 June 1999

ISBN : 9780820442570

Price : €56.39

Description

Jane Austens Discourse with New Rhetoric identifies major considerations in Jane Austens 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 Blairs Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres and George Campbells The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Her own stance, closely allied to the empiricist thinking from which Campbells rhetorical philosophy derives, shares with his presentation an infusion of rationalism that separates Campbells philosophy from David Humes skepticism. As Austens novels test the rhetoricians 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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