Event overview
Ian Balfour examines Jane Austen's hyperbolic rhetoric—with responses from Rowan Boyson (KCL) and Paul Hamilton (QMUL).
With all the attention lavished on Jane Austen’s fiction with an eye to narrative technique, irony, the marriage plot(s), class and gender relations, and more, a certain aspect of her rhetoric – or that of her characters – tends to be overlooked. Her body of fiction is generally known for its texture and ethos of decorum and propriety and yet the novels feature, on inspection, a pronounced, punctual rhetoric of excess. This talk asks: what is this excessive rhetoric doing? What do we make of it?
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Mar 2025 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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