What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.
What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.
E.M. Dadlez 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 What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (Penn State Press) and Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume (Wiley-Blackwell).
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* Series Editor's Foreword, Richard Eldridge * Contributors * Introduction, E.M Dadlez * 1. Love and Friendship: Achieving Happiness in Jane Austen's Emma Neera Badhwar and E.M. Dadlez * 2. Emma's Pensive Meditations Cynthia Freeland * 3. Emma and Defective Action Eileen John * 4. 'A danger at present unperceived': Self-Understanding, Imagination, and Social Relations in Emma Richard Eldridge * 5. The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma Heidi Silcox and Mark Silcox * 6. The Reconstrual of Imagination and Romance Peter Knox-Shaw * 7. Misreading Emma David Davies * 8. The Dilemma of Emma: Substance, Style, and Story Peter Kivy
* Series Editor's Foreword, Richard Eldridge * Contributors * Introduction, E.M Dadlez * 1. Love and Friendship: Achieving Happiness in Jane Austen's Emma Neera Badhwar and E.M. Dadlez * 2. Emma's Pensive Meditations Cynthia Freeland * 3. Emma and Defective Action Eileen John * 4. 'A danger at present unperceived': Self-Understanding, Imagination, and Social Relations in Emma Richard Eldridge * 5. The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma Heidi Silcox and Mark Silcox * 6. The Reconstrual of Imagination and Romance Peter Knox-Shaw * 7. Misreading Emma David Davies * 8. The Dilemma of Emma: Substance, Style, and Story Peter Kivy
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