Add to ORKGIn my thesis I examine Jane Austen s indebtedness to her predecessor Samuel Johnson. I attempt to establish moral affinity between these two authors by analysing Austen s novels in the light of the concept of moral education, i.e. how some characters go through a moral process by which they come to see the world and themselves clearly and thereby become better human beings. In so doing I show how Austen utilizes themes and ideas developed in the Rambler, Idler and Adventurer essays. The various chapters explore Johnsonian concepts such as self-deception, self-knowledge, selfishness and fortitude and their bearing on Austen s six major novels. More specifically, I discuss the moral message in Pride and Prejudice, the concept of imagination i...
In the field of British literature, it is well established that during the eighteenth century the no...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are st...
Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are st...
In this thesis, the writer chooses literature as the subject of her study. It is because literature ...
In this thesis, the writer chooses literature as the subject of her study. It is because literature ...
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park as a “paradigm of moral activity”The author considers...
This dissertation argues that Jane Austen’s novels present an ethics of crisis: characters must lear...
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park as a “paradigm of moral activity”The author considers...
Jane Austen has been called an artist and a moralist. Few attempts have been made, however, to illus...
'Pattern' is here used to mean, not merely the 'structure' of Jane Austen's novels (that is, the art...
This study of Jane Austen's six novels examines the relationship of comedy and education. Austen car...
The overall purpose of this thesis is to compare and contrast Jane Austen’s intentions behind the po...
Within the last few years, a great deal of new information has come to light about Jane Austen\u27s ...
In the field of British literature, it is well established that during the eighteenth century the no...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are st...
Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are st...
In this thesis, the writer chooses literature as the subject of her study. It is because literature ...
In this thesis, the writer chooses literature as the subject of her study. It is because literature ...
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park as a “paradigm of moral activity”The author considers...
This dissertation argues that Jane Austen’s novels present an ethics of crisis: characters must lear...
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park as a “paradigm of moral activity”The author considers...
Jane Austen has been called an artist and a moralist. Few attempts have been made, however, to illus...
'Pattern' is here used to mean, not merely the 'structure' of Jane Austen's novels (that is, the art...
This study of Jane Austen's six novels examines the relationship of comedy and education. Austen car...
The overall purpose of this thesis is to compare and contrast Jane Austen’s intentions behind the po...
Within the last few years, a great deal of new information has come to light about Jane Austen\u27s ...
In the field of British literature, it is well established that during the eighteenth century the no...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...