UID:
almahu_9949419118302882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 288 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009206976 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Content:
Jane Austen's fiction is itself philosophy, a fact to which Stanley Cavell attested when he honored his philosophical teacher, J. L. Austin, through homage to her and her work. Engaging equally in criticism and in philosophy, Jane Austen and Other Minds demonstrates the standing of Austen's fiction as a philosophical investigation, both in its own right and as a resource to ordinary language philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Eric Reid Lindstrom addresses a long-standing shortcoming of Austen scholarship by locating in her fiction a linguistic phenomenology available to the novelistic everyday but not afforded her in intellectual history. He simultaneously advances recognition and understanding of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, and of ordinary language philosophy, within Austen scholarship and the broader field of contemporary literary studies. This book argues compellingly for Cavell's choice of Austen as a means to pursue 'passionate exchange,' reimagining her common association with restriction and confinement.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Oct 2022).
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Introduction: On criticism and other "middle subjects" -- Austen and Austin -- Intelligible community -- Sense and sensibility and suffering -- Pride and prejudice and the comedy of perfectionism -- Perlocutionary entailments -- Emma and other minds -- Persuasion, conviction, and care : Jane Austen's keeping.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781009206990
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009206976
