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Constancy & the ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Joyce Kerr Tarpley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarpley, Joyce Kerr.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Mansfield Park.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Ethics.
- Constancy in literature.
- Ethics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Constancy and the ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park offers a rigorous philosophical examination of the novel, the first book-length, close reading to do so.
- Contents:
- Reading Austen's ethics
- Constancy: a definition
- Constancy and education
- Constancy, education, and leisure: an interlude
- The practice of constancy
- Constancy, love, and beauty
- Constancy, nature, and beauty
- Constancy and the pursuit of truth
- Constancy, narrative style, and truth
- Reading Austen's ends.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1897-7
- OCLC:
- 719387809
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