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Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives
Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives
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What has Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and very little to distress or vex her to say to a discipline like philosophy? How is a novel like Emma, inaccurately but not infrequently caricatured as a high-toned version of a pedestrian romance, to supply
material for philosophical insight or speculation? Jane Austen's Emma is many things to many readers but it is as inaccurate as it is reductive to consider it just a romance. The minutia of daily living on which it concentrates permit not a rehearsal of platitudes, but a closer look at human emotions and motives, as well as the opportunity to hone
our interpretive and empathetic skills. Emma flies in the face of conventional notions of femininity by presenting a heroine with hubris. It shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding, how gossip functions in sustaining a
community. Emma rehabilitates conceptions of romance by rejecting melodrama in favor of naturalism. It explores the waywardness of the imagination and the myriad ways in which different people with different biases and agendas may evaluate the same evidence. It dwells on the limits of autonomy in
that it explores the ease with which one may submit to the will of another. Emma is not itself a work of philosophy. Rather, it leads us to think philosophically. In this volume, a myriad group of scholars and philosophers explore the philosophical resonances of Emma.
Author: E. M. Dadlez
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2018
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190689421
material for philosophical insight or speculation? Jane Austen's Emma is many things to many readers but it is as inaccurate as it is reductive to consider it just a romance. The minutia of daily living on which it concentrates permit not a rehearsal of platitudes, but a closer look at human emotions and motives, as well as the opportunity to hone
our interpretive and empathetic skills. Emma flies in the face of conventional notions of femininity by presenting a heroine with hubris. It shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding, how gossip functions in sustaining a
community. Emma rehabilitates conceptions of romance by rejecting melodrama in favor of naturalism. It explores the waywardness of the imagination and the myriad ways in which different people with different biases and agendas may evaluate the same evidence. It dwells on the limits of autonomy in
that it explores the ease with which one may submit to the will of another. Emma is not itself a work of philosophy. Rather, it leads us to think philosophically. In this volume, a myriad group of scholars and philosophers explore the philosophical resonances of Emma.
Author: E. M. Dadlez
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2018
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190689421
About the Author
E.M. Dadlez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her work focuses on the philosophy of art and literature, and on topics at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. She is the author of various articles on aesthetics and feminist ethics, as well as What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (Penn State Press) and Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume (Wiley-Blackwell).
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