Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony
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2014
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Editor
Duquette, Natasha (Editor)
Lenkos, Frauke Elisabeth, 1960- (Editor)
Lenkos, Frauke Elisabeth, 1960- (Editor)
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Book
Keywords
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Aesthetics in literature
Arts and society in literature
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature
Aesthetics in literature
Arts and society in literature
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature
Citation
Duquette, Natasha and Elisabeth Lenckos (eds.). Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2014.
Abstract
Table of Contents
Daily practice, musical accomplishment, and the example of Jane Austen / Kathryn L. Libin -- "A reputation for accomplishment": Marianne Dashwood and Emma Woodhouse as artistic performers / Kelly M. McDonald -- Miss Bingley's walk: Jane Austen and the aesthetics of movement / Erin Smith -- The sister artist: Casandra Austen's portraits of Jane Austen in art historical context / Jeffrey Nigro -- Portrait of a lady (artist): Persuasion and Corinne / Elisabeth Lenckos -- Jane Austen's comic heroines and the controversial: pleasures of wit / Belisa Monteiro -- An adaptable aesthetic: eighteenth-century landscape, Anne Radcliffe, and Jane Austen / Alice Davenport -- Exploring literature's transformative power: Jane Austen, Joanna Baillie, and the aesthetics of moral development / Christine Colón -- Jane Austen's influence on Stephanie Meyer's Twilight / Deborah Kennedy -- Aesthetics, politics, and the interpretation of Mansfield Park / J. Russell Perkin -- Reflections on mirrors: Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and socio-politics / Melora G. Vandersluis -- "So much novelty and beauty": Persuasion and the spacious aesthetic of restraint / Jessica Brown -- Augustinian aesthetics in Austen's world: God as artist / Diane Capitani -- "Delicacy of taste" redeemed: the aesthetic judgment and spiritual formation of Austen's clergyman-heroes / Frederick and Natasha Duquette
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Lehigh University Press
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