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Mirrors to One Another
E.m. Dadlez
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Description for Mirrors to One Another
Mirrors to One Another analyzes the convergence of Jane Austen's literary themes and characters with David Hume's views of morality and human nature. This engaging text emphasizes how the works of Austen and Hume complement each other in such a way that deepens the reader's understanding of both. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’s literary themes and characters with David Hume’s views on morality and human nature.
A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’s literary themes and characters with David Hume’s 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 experiment, articulating hypothetical cases which allow the reader ... Read more
- Contributes to ongoing debates on the philosophy of literature, ethics, and emotion
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Aesthetics
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405193481
SKU
V9781405193481
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99-15
About E.m. Dadlez
E.M. Dadlez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma. She has published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, and Hume Studies. She is also the author of What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (1997).
Reviews for Mirrors to One Another
"Dadlez unpacks the major philosophical trends evident in both Austen and Hume to show that Austen's works were influenced by the intellectual climate resulting from Hume's studies." (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, December 2009) "Dadlez says explicitly that her argument is intended to be cumulative: that is, the text reveals the posited relationship between Hume and Austen gradually, ... Read more