Jane Austen's Discourse with New Rhetoric

Lynn R Rigberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1999
Peter Lang AG (Verlag)
978-0-8204-4257-0 (ISBN)

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Jane 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.

The Author: Recipient of the 1963 Reed Prize from the University of Pennsylvania, Lynn R. Rigberg holds a Ph.D. in literature from Arizona State University. She has taught English literature and composition on both the high school and college levels, and has written on a wide range of aesthetic subjects as a journalist and arts commentator.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.1999
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature ; 14
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8204-4257-7 / 0820442577
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-4257-0 / 9780820442570
Zustand	Neuware