03314nam 2200697Ia 450 991081694310332120230617004252.01-281-36375-897866113637581-4039-7828-X10.1057/9781403978288(CKB)1000000000342712(SSID)ssj0000184965(PQKBManifestationID)11177911(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184965(PQKBWorkID)10207123(PQKB)11706959(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7828-8(MiAaPQ)EBC307909(Au-PeEL)EBL307909(CaPaEBR)ebr10135375(CaONFJC)MIL136375(OCoLC)560459065(EXLCZ)99100000000034271220050316d2005 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrJane Austen's philosophy of the virtues /by Sarah Emsley1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillanc20051 online resource (XI, 202 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-53141-3 1-4039-6966-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.References to Jane Austen's works -- Introduction : how should I live my life? -- Ch. 1. The virtues according to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Austen -- Ch. 2. Propriety's claims on prudence in Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey -- Ch. 3. Sense and sensibility : "know your own happiness" -- Ch. 4. Pride and prejudice and the beauty of justice -- Ch. 5. Fanny price and the contemplative life -- Ch. 6. Learning the art of charity in Emma -- Ch. 7. Balancing the virtues in persuasion -- Conclusion : after Austen.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. Austen's heroines learn to confront the fundamental ethical question of how to live their lives. Instead of defining virtue only in the narrow sense of female sexual virtue, Austen opens up questions about a plurality of virtues. 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.Women and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryDidactic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismMoral conditions in literatureVirtues in literatureEthics in literatureVirtue in literatureWomen and literatureHistoryDidactic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Moral conditions in literature.Virtues in literature.Ethics in literature.Virtue in literature.823/.7Emsley Sarah Baxter1973-1679419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816943103321Jane Austen's philosophy of the virtues4047612UNINA