Rhetorical Elements in the Eighteenth-century English Novel

acting actions ancient appear artistic associated attempt audience beauty begins century chapter character characterizes Clarissa classical comedy comic complexity compliments conscious continual contrast conventional course criticism delivery describes devices early effect eighteenth-century eloquence emotional emphasizes employs English entire epic example expression fact familiar Fielding Fielding's figure formal gesture give hand heart hero heroine highly humor Ibid instance invention ironic irony Jonathan Wild Joseph Andrews kind lady lament language less letter London Lovelace lover manner matter mean metaphors mock-heroic mode narrator nature never novel observes orator oratory particular passage passion pathetic drama pathetic rhetoric pattern Perhaps present prose provides question Quintilian reader rhetoricians Richardson role romantic rhetoric satirical scene seems sentiments serious similar Smollett speaks speech Sterne Sterne's style stylistic suggests techniques tion topics traditional Tristram Shandy true usually Wild writing