| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: Reading Jane Austen's Readings on Liberty; Chapter Two: "Though alive, not at liberty"; Chapter Three: The Ultimate Dichotomy; Chapter Four: Toward the Free Movement of the Soul; Chapter Five: The Limits of Human Liberty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
This book presents Austen as a novelist who put her distinctive voice and extraordinary imagination to the service of a question poets and philosophers have asked for millennia: what does it mean for a human being to be free? The study explores Austen's account of liberty understood as self-governance and suggests interior liberty as the necessary prerequisite for political liberty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 14, 2016) |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion.
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| SUBJECT |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 fast |
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Persuasion (Austen, Jane) fast |
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Liberty in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Freedom of speech -- Women -- Political activity
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Women -- England -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century
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Equality in literature -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Women in literature
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Liberty in literature
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Feminist theory
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Rhetoric
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Women -- Social conditions
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611462289 |
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1611462282 |
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