Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Introduction: Rhetoric, Persuasion, Afterlives -- Yasmin Solomonescu And Stefan H. Uhlig -- Part I Renegotiating Persuasion -- 1 In The Wake Of Rhetoric: Burke Before Wollstonecraft -- Ian Balfour -- 2 Flowers After Rhetoric -- Jan Mieszkowski -- 3 Persuasion Against Rhetoric: The Transformative Language Of Jean-jacques Rousseau -- Emma Planinc -- 4 Hazlitt, Persuasion, And Progressivism -- Mark Canuel -- 5 More Than Justice: Balance And Persuasion In Hazlitt -- Ross Wilson Part Ii Practicing Persuasion -- 6 Persuasion: Oratory And The Novel -- Frances Ferguson -- 7 Austen's Persuasion -- Alessa Johns -- 8 The Tone Police -- Brian Mcgrath -- 9 Romantic Persuasion In American Antislavery Poetry -- Jake Fournier -- Part Iii Institutions Of Persuasion -- 10 Proof Possible: Persuasion And Presumption In Science And The Law,c.1800 -- Daniel Stout -- 11 Persuasion After The Revolution: History Writing And Public Oratory In Heinrich Heine's Reports On The July Monarchy -- Sean Franzel -- 12 Thomas Campbell's Magic Lantern: Poetry In The Lecture Room -- Sarah Zimmerman 13 Persuasion, Power, And Democracy In De Quincey -- Maeve Adams -- Bibliography -- Index Edited By Yasmin Solomonescu And Stefan H. Uhlig. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.