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Mirrors to one another : emotion and value in Jane Austen and David Hume / E.M. Dadlez.

By: Dadlez, E. M. (Eva M.), 1956-Contributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: TextTextSeries: New directions in aesthetics ; 8.Publisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Description: 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444310412; 1444310410; 9781444310405; 1444310402; 1282117181; 9781282117181; 1405193484; 9781405193481Subject(s): Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Philosophy | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Ethics | Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Ethics | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 | Hume, David, 1711-1776 | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 | Hume, David, 1711-1776 | Literature and morals | Ethics in literature | Literature -- Philosophy | LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | Ethics | Ethics in literature | Literature and morals | Literature -- Philosophy | PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mirrors to one another.DDC classification: 823/.7 LOC classification: PR4038.P5 | D33 2009Online resources: Wiley Online Library
Contents:
Mirrors to One Another; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 How Literature Can Be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts; 2 Literary Form and Philosophical Content; 3 Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen; 4 Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue; 5 Hume and Austen on Sympathy; 6 Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen; 7 The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen; 8 Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen; 9 Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning.
Summary: A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austens literary themes and characters with David Humes views on morality and human nature.:.; Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing.; Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other.; Proposes that literature may serve as a thought exper.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.

Mirrors to One Another; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 How Literature Can Be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts; 2 Literary Form and Philosophical Content; 3 Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen; 4 Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue; 5 Hume and Austen on Sympathy; 6 Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen; 7 The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen; 8 Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen; 9 Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning.

A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austens literary themes and characters with David Humes views on morality and human nature.:.; Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing.; Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other.; Proposes that literature may serve as a thought exper.

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