More Shopping OptionsThis book examines Austen's novels within their philosophical and religious contexts, and demonstrates that both classical and theological virtues are central to her work. In fresh readings of the six completed novels, plus Lady Susan, Emsley shows how Austen's complex representations of the tensions among the virtues shape the morality of her characters and their societies.
Sarah Emsley teaches in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from Dalhousie University and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford.
How Should I Live My Life? * The Virtues According to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Austen * Propriety's Claims on Prudence in Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey * Sense and Sensibility: 'Know Your Own Happiness' * Pride and Prejudice and the Beauty of Justice * Fanny Price and the Contemplative Life * Learning the Art of Charity in Emma * Balancing the Virtues in Persuasion * After Austen
