Austen's Oughts: Judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury
Autor Karen Valihoraen Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611491371
ISBN-10: 1611491371
Pagini: 363
Dimensiuni: 167 x 243 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University of Delaware Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1611491371
Pagini: 363
Dimensiuni: 167 x 243 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University of Delaware Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Valihora (York Univ., Canada) presents a rich, readable study of the contemporaneous social, philosophical, and literary contexts of Austen's work. . . . Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
One of the dominant intellectual debates of the eighteenth century circled around the issue of determining whether there were ultimate standards, standards of taste, moral standards, and standards of proper conduct and propriety. . . In her book Austen's Oughts, Karen Valihora argues that a proper understanding of Austen's novels needs to begin with a consideration of these eighteenth-century debates. ... Valihora's most significant contribution to our understanding of Austen occurs in her chapter on Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose paintings and lectures delivered during his tenure as president of the Royal Academy served to initiate what has come to be called the picturesque tradition in art. . . . Valihora offers a book that places Austen's work solidly within the intellectual climate of the eighteenth century and demonstrates how art, and Austen's art in particular, is able to detail the difficult balance one attains when he can reconcile his personal interests and ways of seeing with a vision that is sharable and beneficial to the public good.
Valihora opens a fresh vista on the subject [of Austen and the picturesque] by focusing on the role allotted by Uvedale Price to the spectator, who is so teased out of a distancing, overall view, she argues, as to be immersed or even lost in the natural scene, so offering a parallel to the heroine who struggles to gain a "third-person perspective on her own self"(262, 276). . . . there is much to recommend in this intricate, extensive, and frequently arresting book.
Karen Valihora's Austen's Oughts sets out to trace the development of the aesthetic across the century from the viewpoint of its own architects, rather than following the tradition of such debunking hermeneutics. Deliberately embracing neoclassical aesthetic values, Valihora describes how the aesthetic emerged in response to particular developments within empiricism. ... The story Valihora tells is compelling.
Karen Valihora's thought-provoking book offers a consideration of the idea of judgement in the novels of Jane Austen and in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, with particular reference to the works of Adam Smith, John Locke, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and - surprisingly - Joshua Reynold's Discourses on Art. This is an encouraging contribution to the studies of the long eighteenth century.
Karen Valihora's clever and ambitious book locates the aesthetic at the heart of an eighteenth-century moral tradition that culminates, at the end of the century, in the novels of Jane Austen. . . Austen's Oughts challenges influential interpretations of Austen as a nostalgic Christian conservative by identifying her as very much a creature of her times-that is, of the Enlightenment. ... Valihora's interests are remarkably wide-ranging. They yield a correspondingly eclectic and erudite study. ... Valihora [makes a] fine achievement in Austen's Oughts. She has written a book that manages to be at once philosophically substantive and attentive to the text, that moves back and forth between abstract theorizing and close reading in ways that parallel the trajectories of free indirect discourse and of reflective judgment itself. Valihora is a critical voice that future generations of Austen scholars will find difficult to ignore.
One of the dominant intellectual debates of the eighteenth century circled around the issue of determining whether there were ultimate standards, standards of taste, moral standards, and standards of proper conduct and propriety. . . In her book Austen's Oughts, Karen Valihora argues that a proper understanding of Austen's novels needs to begin with a consideration of these eighteenth-century debates. ... Valihora's most significant contribution to our understanding of Austen occurs in her chapter on Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose paintings and lectures delivered during his tenure as president of the Royal Academy served to initiate what has come to be called the picturesque tradition in art. . . . Valihora offers a book that places Austen's work solidly within the intellectual climate of the eighteenth century and demonstrates how art, and Austen's art in particular, is able to detail the difficult balance one attains when he can reconcile his personal interests and ways of seeing with a vision that is sharable and beneficial to the public good.
Valihora opens a fresh vista on the subject [of Austen and the picturesque] by focusing on the role allotted by Uvedale Price to the spectator, who is so teased out of a distancing, overall view, she argues, as to be immersed or even lost in the natural scene, so offering a parallel to the heroine who struggles to gain a "third-person perspective on her own self"(262, 276). . . . there is much to recommend in this intricate, extensive, and frequently arresting book.
Karen Valihora's Austen's Oughts sets out to trace the development of the aesthetic across the century from the viewpoint of its own architects, rather than following the tradition of such debunking hermeneutics. Deliberately embracing neoclassical aesthetic values, Valihora describes how the aesthetic emerged in response to particular developments within empiricism. ... The story Valihora tells is compelling.
Karen Valihora's thought-provoking book offers a consideration of the idea of judgement in the novels of Jane Austen and in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, with particular reference to the works of Adam Smith, John Locke, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and - surprisingly - Joshua Reynold's Discourses on Art. This is an encouraging contribution to the studies of the long eighteenth century.
Karen Valihora's clever and ambitious book locates the aesthetic at the heart of an eighteenth-century moral tradition that culminates, at the end of the century, in the novels of Jane Austen. . . Austen's Oughts challenges influential interpretations of Austen as a nostalgic Christian conservative by identifying her as very much a creature of her times-that is, of the Enlightenment. ... Valihora's interests are remarkably wide-ranging. They yield a correspondingly eclectic and erudite study. ... Valihora [makes a] fine achievement in Austen's Oughts. She has written a book that manages to be at once philosophically substantive and attentive to the text, that moves back and forth between abstract theorizing and close reading in ways that parallel the trajectories of free indirect discourse and of reflective judgment itself. Valihora is a critical voice that future generations of Austen scholars will find difficult to ignore.