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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
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...
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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. Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Jane Austen's Emma -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Love and Friendship: Achieving Happiness in Jane Austen's Emma -- 2. Emma's Pensive Meditations -- 3. Emma and Defective Action -- 4. "A Danger at Present Unperceived": Self-Understanding, Imagination, Emotion, and Social Stance in Emma -- 5. The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma -- 6. The Reconstrual of Imagination and Romance -- 7. Misreading Emma -- 8. The Dilemma of Emma: Substance, Style, and Story -- Index.