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