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Title: Jane Austen and the Arts
Condition: New
Subtitle: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony
ISBN-10: 1611461375
EAN: 9781611461374
ISBN: 9781611461374
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 04/12/2013
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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 238mm
Item Length: 162mm
Item Width: 27mm
Item Weight: 558g
Contributor: Jessica Brown (Contributions by), Alice Davenport (Contributions by), Melora G. Vandersluis (Contributions by), J. Russell Perkin (Contributions by), Kelly McDonald (Contributions by), Jeffrey Nigro (Contributions by), Kathryn L. Libin (Contributions by), Christine Colón (Contributions by), Vivasvan Soni (Contributions by), Frederick A. Duquette (Contributions by), Erin J. Smith (Contributions by), Belisa Monteiro (Contributions by), Elisabeth Lenckos (Edited by), Natasha Duquette (Edited by), Deborah Kennedy (Contributions by), Diane N. Capitani (Contributions by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Author: Alice Davenport
Release Year: 2013

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