Commentary alongside the text explains difficult allusions, while the Introduction explicates the novel’s central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen’s other works and to those of her contemporaries.
This text examines current and classical theory through the lens of contemporary culture, encouraging readers to explore the nature of persuasion and to understand its impact in their lives.
This edition places the novel in its historical setting, the few months between Napoleon's escape from Elba and the battle of Waterloo, and it relates its elegiac mood to the later moment when Jane Austen was writing: the period of ...
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story.
The text takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide the latest thinking on persuasion while also drawing on a broad theoretical base for foundational concepts, such as attitudes, rhetoric, and human motivation.
Most traditional satire that uses irony manages to avoid some of the problems that Gallagher's poem encounters by avoiding the suggestion of any personal connection between the poet and the people ridiculed.
This comprehensive text provides a thorough and critical treatment of persuasion theory and research from a social science perspective.
A manual for quickly learning some very powerful hypnotic language patters that you can use in practical, real world situations.
He developed a "mind reading" stage show depicting that phenomenon, and his demonstrations have been seen by over a million people across the globe. Methods of Persuasion reveals that secret for the first time.
Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.