Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

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  • Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion Book Detail

  • Author : Kathryn E. Davis
  • Release Date : 2016-10-20
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 195
  • ISBN 13 : 1611462282
  • File Size : 47,47 MB
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Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion by Kathryn E. Davis PDF Summary

Book Description: Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth century, including William Cowper, George Gordon Byron, Samuel Johnson, Hugh Blair, Thomas Sherlock, Edmund Burke, and Charles Pasley, endeavored definitively to determine what it means for a human being to be free. Persuasion is Austen’s elegant, artful and complex addition to this conversation. In this study, Kathryn Davis proposes that Austen's last complete novel offers an apologia for human liberty primarily understood as self-governance. Austen’s characters struggle to attain liberty, not from an oppressive political regime or stifling social conventions, but for a type of excellence that is available to each human being. The novel's presentation of moral virtue has wider cultural significance as a force that shapes both the “little social commonwealth[s]” inhabited by characters of Austen’s own making and, possibly, the identity of the nation whose sovereign read Persuasion.

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