{"product_id":"persuasion-after-rhetoric-in-the-eighteenth-century-and-romanticism-9780192863737","title":"Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism","description":"While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with rhetoric were rearticulated after its demise. This volume explores how persuasion ceased to be the seemingly self-evident objective of rhetoric and became, instead, a variable and substantive focus for discussion in its own right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter rhetoric ceded much of its centrality to logic and empirical procedures, the significance and implications of persuasion were the subject of renewed attention in a range of different fields, including philosophy, law, poetry, novels, botany, cultural criticism, historiography, political thought, and public lecturing. \u003cem\u003ePersuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism\u003c\/em\u003e maps how values of persuasion were adapted and diversified in ways that still resonate with current arguments about conviction, understanding, and belief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors address the figurations of persuasion in a range of theorists and writers, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft, to Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Campbell, William Hazlitt, Heinrich Heine, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. This collection offers a detailed account of persuasive interests at the threshold of modernity. It also prompts us to rethink persuasion now that its continued efficacy seems at risk in a fragmented public sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYasmin Solomonescu, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/em\u003e, Stefan H. Uhlig, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYasmin 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 \u003cem\u003eJohn Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), editor of \u003cem\u003eJohn Thelwall: Critical Reassessments\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eEnlightenment Liberties\/Libert?s des Lumi?res\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and of a modern edition of John Thelwall's 1801 novel \u003cem\u003eThe Daughter of Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStefan 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 \u003cem\u003eAesthetics and the Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter\u003c\/em\u003e with Peter de Bolla (2009), \u003cem\u003eWordsworth's Poetic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e with Alexander Regier (2010), and \u003cem\u003eGoethe, Worlds, and Literature\u003c\/em\u003e with Daniel Purdy and Chunjie Zhang (2018). His book \u003cem\u003eRhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50910973395218,"sku":"9780192863737","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_39f9d65d-9cd5-490c-b5a8-740643468474.jpg?v=1738722175","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/persuasion-after-rhetoric-in-the-eighteenth-century-and-romanticism-9780192863737","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}