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"A thorough knowledge of human nature": An application of George Campbell's "Philosophy of Rhetoric" to selected novels of Jane Austen
Early in the course of Northanger Abbey, one of her earliest written novels, Jane Austen withdraws from the narrative to confront readers with an impassioned defense of the novel. Although many readers and critics may gloss over this defense, it is one of the most important passages in all of …