Rhetoric and Gender in Jane Austen's "Persuasion.".

Walzer, Arthur E.

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Rhetoric and Gender in Jane Austen's "Persuasion."

Walzer, Arthur E.

College English, v57 n6 p688-707 Oct 1995

Argues for a reading of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" that undermines Joseph Duffy's reading of the novel as a commentary on shifting social class structures, and which bolsters Nancy Armstrong's reading as a commentary on female voice and the values of the domestic household. Interprets the novel in the light of 18th-century rhetorical theory. (TB)

Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory

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Language: English

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