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Jane Austen and religion : salvation and society in Georgian England / Michael Giffin.
Van Pelt Library PR4038.R4 G54 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giffin, Michael, 1953-
- Series:
- Cross-currents in religion and culture (Palgrave (Firm))
- Cross-currents in religion and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Religion.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Christian fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Christian fiction, English.
- Christianity and literature--England--History.
- Christianity and literature.
- Literature and society--England--History.
- Literature and society.
- Religion in literature.
- History.
- Religion.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Jane Austen & religion
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Summary:
- Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's six published novels against the background of a 'long 18th century' that stretched from the Restoration to the Regency. He demonstrates that Austen is a neoclassical author of the enlightenment who writes through the twin prisms of British Empiricism and Georgian Anglicanism. Giffin's 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333948084
- OCLC:
- 48544462
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