Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues

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Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues is written by S. Emsley and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 140397828X (ISBN 10) and 9781403978288 (ISBN 13).

This book examines Austen's novels in relation to her philosophical and religious context, demonstrating that the combination of the classical and theological traditions of the virtues is central to her work. Austen's heroines learn to confront the fundamental ethical question of how to live their lives. Instead of defining virtue only in the narrow sense of female sexual virtue, Austen opens up questions about a plurality of virtues. In fresh readings of the six completed novels, plus Lady Susan, Emsley shows how Austen's complex imaginative representations of the tensions among the virtues engage with and expand on classical and Christian ethical thought.