For Adam Smith, the desire to persuade was a powerful human motivation underlying his theories of rhetoric, moral philosophy, economics, and jurisprudence.
Caroline Breashears
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Apr 10, 2023
One cannot change the language in higher education in a moment, but if one jeers loudly enough, one can in time send some useless phrases into the dustbin.
Jan 19, 2022
Reading Demons provides an opportunity for boomers to reflect upon what they left for their children and undergo their own moral education.
Mar 12, 2021
Betraying the next generation into mediocrity while limiting their freedom can never be “moral.”
Jul 1, 2020
In The Monk, Matthew Lewis used the Gothic form first to convey the temptation to mob violence before illuminating its horrors.
Caroline Breashears is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the "Scandalous Memoir" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).