Jane Austen And Philosophy

Author : Mimi Marinucci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442257105
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen and Philosophy written by Mimi Marinucci and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen’s timeless tales of eighteenth-century English life. Even casual readers comprehend that these classic novels are not just love stories. They offer keen insights into various aspects of the human condition, such as interpersonal relationships, social conventions, and morality. Jane Austen and Philosophy offers all fans of Austen’s work an introduction to the incredible depth of this English novelist’s stories by probing, for example, the struggles of Elizabeth and Jane Bennett, Emma Woodhouse, and Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as they face societal pressures and their own desires. As the second book in the new Great Authors and Philosophy series,Jane Austen and Philosophy explores questions about morality and duty, propriety and dignity, and obligation and happiness that sheds new light on the works of this classic author and reveals deep issues still relevant to the men and women of society today.

Author : S. Emsley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140397828X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues written by S. Emsley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Austen's novels in relation to her philosophical and religious context, demonstrating that the combination of the classical and theological traditions of the virtues is central to her work. Austen's heroines learn to confront the fundamental ethical question of how to live their lives. Instead of defining virtue only in the narrow sense of female sexual virtue, Austen opens up questions about a plurality of virtues. In fresh readings of the six completed novels, plus Lady Susan, Emsley shows how Austen's complex imaginative representations of the tensions among the virtues engage with and expand on classical and Christian ethical thought.

Author : E. M. Dadlez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444310405
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrors to One Another written by E. M. Dadlez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’sliterary themes and characters with David Hume’s views onmorality and human nature. Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in JaneAusten's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humeanapproach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical,aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen'swriting. Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, eachproviding a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on theideas of the other Proposes that literature may serve as a thought experiment,articulating hypothetical cases which allow the reader to test hermoral intuitions Contributes to ongoing debates on the philosophy of literature,ethics, and emotion

Author : Eva M. Dadlez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190689452
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen's Emma written by Eva M. Dadlez and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.

Author : Michael Kramp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000401545
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen and Critical Theory written by Michael Kramp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen and Critical Theory is a collection of new essays that addresses the absence of critical theory in Austen studies—an absence that has limited the reach of Austen criticism. The collection brings together innovative scholars who ask new and challenging questions about the efficacy of Austen’s work. This volume confronts mythical understandings of Austen as "Dear Aunt Jane," the early twentieth-century legacy of Austen as a cultural salve, and the persistent habit of reading her works for advice or instruction. The authors pursue a diversity of methods, encourage us to build new kinds of relationships to Austen and her writings, and demonstrate how these relationships might generate new ideas and possibilities—ideas and possibilities that promise to expand the ways in which we deploy Austen. The book specifically reminds us of the vital importance of Austen and her fiction for central concerns of the humanities, including the place of the individual within civil society, the potential for new identities and communities, the urgency to address racial and sexual oppression, and the need to imagine more just futures. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : M. Giffin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913633
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen and Religion written by M. Giffin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen is often thought of as a secular author, because religion seems absent from her novels, because she satirises her clerical characters, and because history and literacy criticism - and the literary sensibility of the twenty-first century reader - is overwhelmingly secular. Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's published novels against the background of a 'long eighteenth century' that stretched from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. He demonstrates that Austen is a neoclassical author of the Enlightenment who writes through the twin prisms of British Empiricism and Georgian Anglicanism. His focus is on how Austen's novels mirror a belief in natural law and natural order; and how they reflect John Locke's theory of knowledge through reason, revelation and reflection on experience. His reading suggests there is a thread of neoclassical philosophy and theology running through and between each of Austen's novels, which is best understood in its cultural context.

Author : Joyce Kerr Tarpley
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217903
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park' written by Joyce Kerr Tarpley and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park offers a rigorous philosophical examination of the novel, the first book-length, close reading to do so.

Author : Alan H. Goldman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191656232
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Novel written by Alan H. Goldman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan H. Goldman presents an original and lucid account of the relationship between philosophy and the novel. In the first part, on philosophy of novels, he defends theories of literary value and interpretation. Literary value, the value of literary works as such, is a species of aesthetic value. Goldman argues that works have aesthetic value when they simultaneously engage all our mental capacities: perceptual, cognitive, imaginative, and emotional. This view contrasts with now prevalent narrower formalist views of literary value. According to it, cognitive engagement with novels includes appreciation of their broad themes and the theses these imply, often moral and hence philosophical theses, which are therefore part of the novels' literary value. Interpretation explains elements of works so as to allow readers maximum appreciation, so as to maximize the literary value of the texts as written. Once more, Goldman's view contrasts with narrower views of literary interpretation, especially those which limit it to uncovering what authors intended. One implication of Goldman's broader view is the possibility of incompatible but equally acceptable interpretations, which he explores through a discussion of rival interpretations of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Goldman goes on to test the theory of value by explaining the immense appeal of good mystery novels in its terms. The second part of the book, on philosophy in novels, explores themes relating to moral agency—moral development, motivation, and disintegration—in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Joseph Conrad's Nostromo. By narrating the course of characters' lives, including their inner lives, over extended periods, these novels allow us to vicariously experience the characters' moral progressions, positive and negative, to learn in a more focused way moral truths, as we do from real life experiences.

Author : Natasha Duquette
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461383
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen and the Arts written by Natasha Duquette and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen’s understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they explore Austen’s connections with Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame de Staël, Joanna Baillie, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, and other writers engaged in debates on the sensuous experience and the intellectual judgment of art. Our contributors look at Austen’s engagement with diverse art forms, painting, ballet, drama, poetry, and music, investigating our topic within historically grounded and theoretically nuanced essays. They represent Austen as a writer-thinker reflecting on the nature and practice of artistic creation and considering the social, moral, psychological, and theological functions of art in her fiction. We suggest that Austen knew, modified, and transformed the dominant aesthetic discourses of her era, at times ironically, to her own artistic ends. As a result, a new, and compelling image of Austen emerges, a “portrait of a lady artist” confidently promoting her own distinctly post-enlightenment aesthetic system.

Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498678
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.