{"product_id":"jane-austens-emma-philosophical-perspectives-paperback","title":"Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. M. Dadlez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat has Emma Woodhouse, \"handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and very little to distress or vex her\" to say to a discipline like philosophy? How is a novel like \u003cem\u003eEmma\u003c\/em\u003e, inaccurately but not infrequently caricatured as a high-toned version of a pedestrian romance, to supply material for philosophical insight or speculation? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJane Austen's \u003cem\u003eEmma \u003c\/em\u003eis many things to many readers but it is as inaccurate as it is reductive to consider it \u003cem\u003ejust \u003c\/em\u003ea romance. The minutia of daily living on which it concentrates permit not a rehearsal of platitudes, but a closer look at human emotions and motives, as well as the opportunity to hone our interpretive and empathetic skills. \u003cem\u003eEmma \u003c\/em\u003eflies in the face of conventional notions of femininity by presenting a heroine with hubris\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eIt shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding, how gossip functions in sustaining a community. \u003cem\u003eEmma \u003c\/em\u003erehabilitates conceptions of romance by rejecting melodrama in favor of naturalism. It explores the waywardness of the imagination and the myriad ways in which different people with different biases and agendas may evaluate the same evidence. It dwells on the limits of autonomy in that it explores the ease with which one may submit to the will of another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmma\u003c\/em\u003e is not itself a work of philosophy. Rather, it leads us to \u003cem\u003ethink \u003c\/em\u003ephilosophically. In this volume, a myriad group of scholars and philosophers explore the philosophical resonances of \u003cem\u003eEmma\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE.M. Dadlez\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her work focuses on the philosophy of art and literature, and on topics at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. She is the author of various articles on aesthetics and feminist ethics, as well as \u003cem\u003eWhat's Hecuba to Him?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eFictional Events and Actual Emotions\u003c\/em\u003e (Penn State Press) and \u003cem\u003eMirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume \u003c\/em\u003e(Wiley-Blackwell).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255520747622,"sku":"9780190689421","price":49.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RldTWDlJVkRoS2hUYkZISUxSN1htQT09.webp?v=1773665738","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/jane-austens-emma-philosophical-perspectives-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}