Jane Austen and reflective selfhood : rereading the self / Linda Charlton.
2022
PR4037
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Title
Jane Austen and reflective selfhood : rereading the self / Linda Charlton.
Author
Charlton, Linda.
ISBN
9783031121609 (electronic bk.)
3031121600 (electronic bk.)
3031121597
9783031121593
3031121600 (electronic bk.)
3031121597
9783031121593
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 259 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-12160-9 doi
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PR4037
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.709
Summary
This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austens narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood, exploring how Austen takes five major components of selfhood theorymemory, imagination, probability, sympathy and reflectionand investigates their relation to self-formation and moral judgement. At the same time, Austens narrative style breaks new ground in the representation of consciousness and engages directly with contemporary concerns about reading practice. Drawing analogies between reading text and reading character, the book argues that Austens rendering of reading and rereading as both reflective and constitutive acts demonstrates their capacity to enable self-recognition and self-formation. It shows how Austen raises questions about the potential for different readings and, in so doing, challenges her readers to reflect on and reread their own interactions with her texts. Dr. Linda Charlton returned to research after a career spanning the UKs education, health and civil services. This is her first book. She is currently working on her second.
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Print version: 9783031121593
JANE AUSTEN AND REFLECTIVE SELFHOOD.
Print version: 9783031121593
JANE AUSTEN AND REFLECTIVE SELFHOOD.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Selfhood and the Novel
Chapter One: Memory: Continuity, Coherence and Self-construction
Chapter Two: Imagination and the Creative Self: The Reader and the Writer
Chapter Three: Proofs, Probabilities and Ambiguities
Chapter Four: Sympathy: The Self and Society
Chapter Five: The Reflecting Self: Self-examination and Moral Judgement
Chapter Six: Reflection, Reading Practice and Self-formation
Conclusion.
Chapter One: Memory: Continuity, Coherence and Self-construction
Chapter Two: Imagination and the Creative Self: The Reader and the Writer
Chapter Three: Proofs, Probabilities and Ambiguities
Chapter Four: Sympathy: The Self and Society
Chapter Five: The Reflecting Self: Self-examination and Moral Judgement
Chapter Six: Reflection, Reading Practice and Self-formation
Conclusion.