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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Jane Austen and the Enlightenment // Peter Knox-Shaw.
remainder title:	Jane Austen & the Enlightenment
Author:	Knox-Shaw, Peter,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Literature and society - History - 19th century. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484353
ISBN:	9780511484353 (ebook)

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment /
Knox-Shaw, Peter,1944-

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment /Jane Austen & the EnlightenmentPeter Knox-Shaw. - 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Auspices -- Pride and prejudice : a politics of the picturesque -- Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians -- Sense and sensibility and the philosophers -- Diffraction -- Mansfield Park : charting the religious revival -- Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty -- Persuasion : light on an old genre -- Sanditon and speculation.

Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Knox-Shaw draws on archival and other neglected sources to reconstruct the intellectual atmosphere of the Steventon Rectory where Austen wrote her juvenilia, and follows the course of her work through the 1790s and onwards, showing how minutely responsive it was to the many shifting movements of those turbulent years. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment is an important contribution to the study both of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.

ISBN: 9780511484353 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

814924
Austen, Jane,
1775-1817--Technique.Subjects--Topical Terms:

568705
Literature and society
--History--Great Britain--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: PR4038.P5 / K68 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.7

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