Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

In this first ever study of Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, Peter Knox-Shaw draws out the Enlightenment principles and ideas which lie behind much of Austen's writing. His study offers a startling new perspective on Austen, and is essential reading for all those interested in Austen and her writing.

AVAILABILITY
Merchant	Format	Price
eBooks.com	Digital (PDF)	$26.00
BookByte	Paperback	$76.00
eCampus	Paperback	~~$26.40~~ discount!

PREVIEW

What Would Jane Austen Do?

$0.01 - $6.99

When a modern woman goes back to Jane Austen's time, she needs to know…Everything! Eleanor agrees to travel back in time to prevent a deadly duel, but she doesn't ...

Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition

$66.45 - $100.00

This wide-ranging and convincingly argued study looks at the issues of and attitudes towards slavery in Jane Austen's later novels and culture, and argues against Edward Said's critique of Jane ...

Jane Austen and Religion

$133.00

Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's six published novels against the background of a 'long eighteenth century' that stretched from the Restoration to the Regency. He demonstrates that Austen ...

Jane Austen and Her Art

$140.00

First published in 1939, this paperback edition offers a study of Jane Austen's genius in the art of fiction. The opening section provides an account of Jane Austen's life and development as ...

Jane Austen and Children

$34.95

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a ...

Jane Austen and Marriage

$34.95 - $42.46

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Pride and Prejudice. The question of marriage lies at the centre of ...

Bible and the Enlightenment

$150.00 - $185.25

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held to mark the bicentenary of the death of Alexander Geddes (1737–1802). Geddes, a product of the Scottish and French Enlightenment, was a ...

Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader

$8.00 - $98.17

Emmanuel Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced.

Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment

$129.99

Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the ...

History and the Enlightenment

$20.08 - $40.00

Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most ...