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Visualizing the Vir Bonus in Charles Dickens’s Scenes of Persuasion
The Rhetoric of Pity, Sentiment, Fact, and Debt
Lisa_Marie Teubler
158 kr
Description
This study presents a re-reading of some of Charles Dickens’s most famous works and contends that they are filled with scenes of persuasion—moments of heightened rhetoric. It traces the idea of a vir bonus: a voice that speaks from the perspective of truth and love based in spontaneous feeling.