Jane Austen and Religion
Salvation and Society in Georgian England
Jane Austen is often thought of as a secular author, because religion seems absent from her novels, because she satirises her clerical characters, and because history and literacy criticism - and the literary sensibility of the twenty-first century reader - is overwhelmingly secular. Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's published novels against the background of a 'long eighteenth century' that stretched from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. He demonstrates that Austen is a neoclassical author of the Enlightenment who writes through the twin prisms of British Empiricism and Georgian Anglicanism. His focus is on how Austen's novels mirror a belief in natural law and natural order; and how they reflect John Locke's theory of knowledge through reason, revelation and reflection on experience. His reading suggests there is a thread of neoclassical philosophy and theology running through and between each of Austen's novels, which is best understood in its cultural context.
| Autor: | Giffin, M. |
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| ISBN: | 9780333948088 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 222 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Veröffentlicht: | 21.06.2002 |
| Untertitel: | Salvation and Society in Georgian England |
| Schlagworte: | British and Irish Literature England Jane Austen bibliography economy religion sensibility society |
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