Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Jane Austen’s Persuasion

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”).

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