TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dadlez,E.M.
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - Mirrors to one another: emotion and value in Jane Austen and David Hume 
T2  - New directions in aesthetics
SN  - 9781444310412
AV  - PR4038.P5 D33 2009
U1  - 823/.7 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Austen, Jane,
KW  - Hume, David,
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Ethics in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444310412
ER  -