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This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards persuasion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
List of contents
- Introduction: Rhetoric, Persuasion, Afterlives
- Part I. Renegotiating Persuasion
- 1: Ian Balfour: In the Wake of Rhetoric: Burke Before Wollstonecraft
- 2: Jan Mieszkowski: Flowers after Rhetoric
- 3: Emma Planinc: Persuasion Against Rhetoric: The Transformative Language of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 4: Mark Canuel: Hazlitt, Persuasion, and Progressivism
- 5: Ross Wilson: More Than Justice: Balance and Persuasion in Hazlitt
- Part II. Practicing Persuasion
- 6: Frances Ferguson: Persuasion: Oratory and the Novel
- 7: Alessa Johns: Austen's Persuasion
- 8: Brian McGrath: The Tone Police
- 9: Jake Fournier: Romantic Persuasion in American Antislavery Poetry
- Part III. Institutions of Persuasion
- 10: Daniel Stout: Proof Possible: Persuasion and Presumption in Science and the Law, c. 1800
- 11: Sean Franzel: Persuasion after the Revolution: History Writing and Public Oratory in Heinrich Heine's Reports on the July Monarchy
- 12: Sarah Zimmerman: Thomas Campbell's Magic Lantern: Poetry in the Lecture Room
- 13: Maeve Adams: Persuasion, Power, and Democracy in De Quincey
About the author
Yasmin Solomonescu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She has held fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Chawton House and was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at York University. She is author of John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (2014), editor of John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments (2011), and co-editor of Enlightenment Liberties/Libertés des Lumières (2018) and of a modern edition of John Thelwall's 1801 novel The Daughter of Adoption (2013).
Stefan H. Uhlig is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. Before he joined Davis, he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King's College, University of Cambridge. He has co-edited Aesthetics and the Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter with Peter de Bolla (2009), Wordsworth's Poetic Theory with Alexander Regier (2010), and Goethe, Worlds, and Literature with Daniel Purdy and Chunjie Zhang (2018). His book Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024.
Summary
This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards persuasion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
