THE SMART TRICK OF PERSUASION THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

[13] The American scholar Adela Pinch writes that Austen returns to this topic in Persuasion but in a far more experienced and probing manner, as Persuasion is concerned with "what it looks like to generally be a reader. It does so by connecting this emotion to just what the presence of other people truly feel like. It explores, that is, the affect