Jane Austen and religion
salvation and society in Georgian England
by Michael Giffin
"Jane Austen in often thought of as a secular author, because religion seems absent from her novels, because she satirises her clerical characters, and because the history of literary criticism - and the literary sensibility of the twenty-first century reader - is overwhelmingly secular. Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's published novels against the background of a 'long eighteenth century' that stretched from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period.
He demonstrates that Austen is a neoclassical author of the Enlightenment who writes through the twin prisms of British Empiricism and Georgian Anglicanism. His 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.
His reading suggests there is a thread of neoclassical philosophy and theology running through and between each of Austen's novels, which is best understood in its cultural context."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jane Austen and religion: salvation and society in Georgian England
2002, Palgrave Macmillan
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.
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