Jane Austen and Religion

Jane Austen and Religion
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781403913630
ISBN-13 : 1403913633
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Book Synopsis Jane Austen and Religion by : M. Giffin

Download or read book Jane Austen and Religion written by M. Giffin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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