Jane Austen and other minds : ordinary language philosophy in literary fiction / Eric Reid Lindstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindstrom, Eric Reid, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Language.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Literary style.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation.

English language--19th century--Usage.

English language.

Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.

Romance fiction, English.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Ordinary-language philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Oct 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Lindstrom, Eric Reid Jane Austen and Other Minds

ISBN:

1-009-20696-6

1-009-20697-4

1-009-20700-8