Contributor
Marinucci, Mimi, editor.
ImprintLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Descriptionxv, 249 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Part I. Love and marriage -- Love in the time of epistemic injustice / Vittorio Bufacchi ; Can there be sense without sensibility? The middle road to love and marriage for Jane Austen / Sally Winkle ; Love, marriage, and dialectics in the novels of Jane Austen / Suzie Gibson ; Marriage and friendship in Jane Austen: Self-knowledge, virtue, and the :second self" / Kathleen Poorman Dougherty -- Part II. Morality and virtue -- Finding happiness in Hartfield / Janelle Pötzsch ; The last great representative of the virtues: MacIntyre after Austen / David LaRocca ; Jane Austen on moral luck / E. M. Dudlez -- Part III. Wealth and class -- Women owning property: The great lady in Jane Austen / Rita J. Dashwood ; Deconstructung entailment / Christopher Ketcham ; "The Middle Classes at play"" Jane Austen and Marx go to Hollywood / Charles Bane -- Part IV. Concepts and clarificatiosn -- Do you wnat to know a secret? The immorality and morality of secrets and the subversive Jane Susten / Elizabeth Olson and Charles Taliaferro ; Persuasion, influence and overpersuasion / Keith Dromm and Healther Salter ; The language games of persuasion / Richard Gilmore -- Part V. Monsters and zombies -- Dead and alive: Austen's role in mashup literature / Amanda Riter ; Pride and predjudice and zombies: Regency, repression, and roundhouse kicks / Andrea Zanin ; "Till this moment I never knew myself": On identities and zombies / A. G. Holdier.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen's timeless tales of eighteenth-century English life. Even casual readers comprehend that these classic novels are not just love stories. They offer keen insights into various aspects of the human condition, such as interpersonal relationships, social conventions, and morality. Jane Austen and Philosophy offers all fans of Austen's work an introduction to the incredible depth of this English novelist's stories by probing, for example, the struggles of Elizabeth and Jane Bennett, Emma Woodhouse, and Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as they face societal pressures and their own desires." --Publisher's description.
