Jane austen and the enlightenment
Knox-Shaw, Peter
Jane austen and the enlightenment - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004 - xi, 275 p. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Know-Shaw draws on archival and other neglected sources to reconstruct the intellectual atmosphere of the Steventon Rectory where Austen wrote her juvenilia, and follows the course of her work through the 1790s and onwards, showing how minutely responsive it was to the may shifting movements of those turbulent years. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment is an important contribution to the study both of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.
9780521759977
Enlightenment
Great Britain
Literature and society
Abolition movement
Criticism
Intellectual life
Skepticism
Sovereignty
823.7 / KNO
Jane austen and the enlightenment - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004 - xi, 275 p. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Know-Shaw draws on archival and other neglected sources to reconstruct the intellectual atmosphere of the Steventon Rectory where Austen wrote her juvenilia, and follows the course of her work through the 1790s and onwards, showing how minutely responsive it was to the may shifting movements of those turbulent years. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment is an important contribution to the study both of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.
9780521759977
Enlightenment
Great Britain
Literature and society
Abolition movement
Criticism
Intellectual life
Skepticism
Sovereignty
823.7 / KNO