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Title: Jane Austen and the Arts
Condition: New
EAN: 9781611462005
ISBN: 9781611462005
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26/08/2015
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 154mm
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 445g
Contributor: Natasha Duquette (Edited by), Elisabeth Lenckos (Edited by), Jessica Brown (Contributions by), Deborah Kennedy (Contributions by), Kelly McDonald (Contributions by), Belisa Monteiro (Contributions by), Diane N. Capitani (Contributions by), Alice Davenport (Contributions by), Kathryn L. Libin (Contributions by), Christine Colón (Contributions by), Jeffrey Nigro (Contributions by), J. Russell Perkin (Contributions by), Erin J. Smith (Contributions by), Vivasvan Soni (Contributions by), Melora G. Vandersluis (Contributions by), Frederick A. Duquette (Contributions by)
Language: English
Subtitle: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony
ISBN-10: 1611462002
Description: The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen’s understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they explore Austen’s connections with Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame de Staël, Joanna Baillie, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, and other writers engaged in debates on the sensuous experience and the intellectual judgment of art. Our contributors look at Austen’s engagement with diverse art forms, painting, ballet, drama, poetry, and music, investigating our topic within historically grounded and theoretically nuanced essays. They represent Austen as a writer-thinker reflecting on the nature and practice of artistic creation and considering the social, moral, psychological, and theological functions of art in her fiction. We suggest that Austen knew, modified, and transformed the dominant aesthetic discourses of her era, at times ironically, to her own artistic ends. As a result, a new, and compelling image of Austen emerges, a “portrait of a lady artist” confidently promoting her own distinctly post-enlightenment aesthetic system.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Author: Natasha Duquette
Release Year: 2015

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