Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780521759977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Peter Knox-Shaw

Opis

It is now widely understood that Jane Austen's writing and thought were derived directly from her late eighteenth-century childhood, but astonishingly, this is the first study of the influence of the Enlightenment on Jane Austen. Drawing out the Enlightenment principles and ideas which lie behind much of Austen's writing, Peter Knox-Shaw presents a new perspective on the study of Austen's novels.

Recenzje

'… densely argued, readable, and exceptionally exciting … his success in this fine study is a tribute to his cautiously conservative scholarly approach.' Daniel Traister, JASNA News

Spis treści

Part I. The Eighteenth-Century Legacy: 1. Auspices; 2. Pride and Prejudice, a politics of the picturesque; 3. Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians; 4. Sense and Sensibility and the philosophers; Part II. Engaging with the New Age: 5. Diffraction; 6. Mansfield Park: charting the religious revival; 7. Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty; 8. Persuasion: light on an old genre; 9. Sanditon and speculation; Bibliography.