Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1403969663 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Graham, JASNA News. Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues suggests that although great writing can exist in an age of doubt, the tradition of the virtues must fade and diminish -- and thus that the coherent complexity of the virtues has never since been surpassed or equaled. Nor has it hitherto been fully explicated with Emsley's admirable blend of clarity, precision, erudition, and plausibility.-Peter W
from Dalhousie University and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK. She received her Ph.D. SARAH EMSLEY teaches in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University, USA.
Austen's heroines learn to confront the fundamental ethical question of how to live their lives. 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. 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.. Instead of defining virtue only in the narrow sense of female sexual virtue, Austen opens up questions about a plurality of virtues