LEADER 03314nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910816943103321 005 20230617004252.0 010 $a1-281-36375-8 010 $a9786611363758 010 $a1-4039-7828-X 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403978288 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342712 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184965 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184965 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207123 035 $a(PQKB)11706959 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7828-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307909 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307909 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135375 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136375 035 $a(OCoLC)560459065 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342712 100 $a20050316d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJane Austen's philosophy of the virtues /$fby Sarah Emsley 205 $a1st ed. 2005. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 202 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-349-53141-3 311 $a1-4039-6966-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReferences 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aDidactic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMoral conditions in literature 606 $aVirtues in literature 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aVirtue in literature 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aDidactic fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMoral conditions in literature. 615 0$aVirtues in literature. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aVirtue in literature. 676 $a823/.7 700 $aEmsley$b Sarah Baxter$f1973-$01679419 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816943103321 996 $aJane Austen's philosophy of the virtues$94047612 997 $aUNINA