Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues

ISBN-13: 9781349531417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 202 str.

Sarah Baxter Emsley; S. Emsley

Opis

This book examines the ways in which Jane Austen's novels offer complex imaginative representations of both the tensions among, and the possibilities for, the practice of both the classical and the theological virtues.

Spis treści

How Should I Live My Life? The Virtues According to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Austen Propriety's Claims on Prudence in Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility : 'Know Your Own Happiness' Pride and Prejudice and the Beauty of Justice Fanny Price and the Contemplative Life Learning the Art of Charity in Emma Balancing the Virtues in Persuasion After Austen

O autorze

SARAH EMSLEY teaches in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Dalhousie University and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK.