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Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description
Author: Brett Bourbon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 100078083X

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Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory. The engine driving the moral judgement and growth of Austen’s protagonists consists of a particular and not well-understood ability to reason by description, a skill which we moderns must recover and remaster in order to negotiate the complexities of contemporary life. The forms of rational description this book derives from Austen will be of great interest not only to literary critics and theorists, but also to philosophers and anyone interested in ethics, the dynamics of power, and practical reasoning. Written in a clear style, the book is for those who love Austen and for those who want to understand how we should reason about our lives, how we should understand power, social conflict, and our own motives and prejudices. It is a literary analysis, a philosophical argument, and a practical guide to ethical thinking.


Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park'

Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park'
Author: Joyce Kerr Tarpley
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813217903

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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.


Mirrors to One Another

Mirrors to One Another
Author: E. M. Dadlez
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-03-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781444310405

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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


Those Elegant Decorums

Those Elegant Decorums
Author: Jane Nardin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780873952361

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Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.


Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation
Author: Bharat Tandon
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 184331102X

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An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.


Jane Austen and Philosophy

Jane Austen and Philosophy
Author: Mimi Marinucci
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1442257105

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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.


Jane Austen And The Drama Of Women

Jane Austen And The Drama Of Women
Author: LeRoy W Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 215
Release: 1983-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1349171840

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Some Words of Jane Austen

Some Words of Jane Austen
Author: Stuart M. Tave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022663339X

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Jane Austen’s readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and explains a number of the central concepts across Austen’s novels—examining how words like “odd,” “exertion,” and, of course, “sensibility,” hold the key to understanding the Regency author’s language of moral values. Tracing the force and function of these words from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion, Tave invites us to consider the peculiar and subtle ways in which word choice informs the conduct, moral standing, and self-awareness of Austen’s remarkable characters.


The Eighteenth-century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics

The Eighteenth-century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics
Author: Carol Ann Stewart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754663485

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Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen shed light on the literary marketplace and the status of writers.


How to Study a Jane Austen Novel

How to Study a Jane Austen Novel
Author: Vivien Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1349142255

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However much students enjoy their reading of a Jane Austen novel, many find it difficult to know how to organise their critical responses. This book shows students how to develop a firm grasp of Jane Austen's characters, themes and techniques, as well as such central topics as the use of irony in the novels, and their style and moral patterning. In the newly revised and expanded edition of this successful book, Vivien Jones looks at all of Jane Austen's novels, and demonstrates how to analyse both their overall structure and concerns as well as individual passages. A completely new chapter looks at current critical debates about Austen's achievement and the final chapter gives practical advice on writing an essay.