Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description

Preface

Part I: Jane Austen and the Powers of Description

1 Disciplines of Description

2 Reading Ignorance into Sense

3 Elizabeth Bennet, the Socrates of Descriptive Reason

4 Frank and Impertinent: Paradiastolic Descriptions

5 An Excursus on Richard Rorty and Lady Catherine

6 Fanny's Garden Thoughts

7 Reasoning by Description

8 Coda: "Part Hawk, Part Man"

Part II: The Apprehension of Power and Life

Prologue

9 The Cook and the Count: A Psychological Anthropology of Tyranny

10 Is Power Coercive?

11 A Parable of Action and Event

12 The Afflictions of Life: Montale's Poetic Description of Flux

13 What Is a Life?

14 A Concluding Postscript

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Teorias literárias

Follow;Holds;Odd;Mansfield Park;Fanny Price;Descriptive Reasoning;Austen's Novels;Montale's Poem;Nephew;Pride;Everyday Description;Logical Relation;Rational Description;Breakdown;Utramque Partem;Thing Life;Heroines;Independent;Younger Man;Darcy's Letter;King's Hall;Broad Chalke;Action Effects Evaluation;Relative Necessities;Shameless Person