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UNINA9910784304903321 |
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Knox-Shaw Peter <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment / / Peter Knox-Shaw [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
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1-107-16369-2 |
1-280-70329-6 |
0-511-23146-6 |
0-511-23069-9 |
0-511-22907-0 |
0-511-31668-2 |
0-511-48435-6 |
0-511-22991-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Enlightenment - Great Britain |
Skepticism in literature |
Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Auspices -- Pride and prejudice : a politics of the picturesque -- Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians -- Sense and sensibility and the philosophers -- Diffraction -- Mansfield Park : charting the religious revival -- Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty -- Persuasion : light on an old genre -- Sanditon and speculation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Knox-Shaw draws on archival and |
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