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100			_aKnox-Shaw, Peter
245			_aJane austen and the enlightenment
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2004 _aCambridge :
300			_axi, 275 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b34.99 _cGBP _d95.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aPeter 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.
650			_aEnlightenment
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aLiterature and society
650			_aAbolition movement
650			_aCriticism
650			_aIntellectual life
650			_aSkepticism
650			_a Sovereignty
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