Jane Austen's Anglicanism

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4094-1863-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely different presumptions about the cosmos and human nature. While Austen's readers often project postmodern and secular perspectives onto an Austen who reflects their own times and values, White argues that viewing Austen's Anglicanism through the lens of primary sources of the period, including the complex history of the Georgian church to which Austen was intimately connected all her life, provides a context for understanding the central conflict between Austen's malicious wit and her family's testimony to her Christian piety and kindness. White draws connections between Austen's experiences with the clergy, liturgy, doctrine, and religious readings and their fictional parallels in the novels; shows how orthodox Anglican concepts such as natural law and the Great Chain of Being resonate in Austen's work; and explores Austen's awareness of the moral problems of authorship relative to God as Creator. She concludes by surveying the ontological and moral gulf between the worldview of Emma and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, arguing that the evangelical earnestness of Austen's day had become a figure of mockery by the late nineteenth century.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Laura Mooneyham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Jane Austen and Anglicanism; Introduction, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 1 Jane Austen's Religious Inheritance: The Georgian Church, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 2 Jane Austen as an Anglican and Anglicanism in the Novels, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 3 Austen and the Anglican Worldview, Laura Mooneyham White; Part 2 The Sins of the Author; Chapter 4 Wordplay, Candor, and Malice, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 5 World-making, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 102 Coda Austen and The Importance of Being Earnest, Laura Mooneyham White;

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Mooneyham White is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA. Her scholarship focuses on the novels of Jane Austen and other works of nineteenth-century British literature.