Jane Austen's Emma : philosophical perspectives

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Jane Austen's Emma : philosophical perspectives

edited by E.M. Dadlez

(Oxford studies in philosophy and literature / Richard Eldridge)

Oxford University Press, c2018

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Series Editor's Foreword, Richard Eldridge Contributors Introduction, E.M Dadlez 1. Love and Friendship: Achieving Happiness in Jane Austen's Emma Neera Badhwar and E.M. Dadlez 2. Emma's Pensive Meditations Cynthia Freeland 3. Emma and Defective Action Eileen John 4. 'A danger at present unperceived': Self-Understanding, Imagination, and Social Relations in Emma Richard Eldridge 5. The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma Heidi Silcox and Mark Silcox 6. The Reconstrual of Imagination and Romance Peter Knox-Shaw 7. Misreading Emma David Davies 8. The Dilemma of Emma: Substance, Style, and Story Peter Kivy

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