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Jane Austen and the Arts - Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony (Paperback)
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Jane Austen and the Arts - Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony (Paperback)
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The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance,
Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen's understanding of the arts,
her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they
explore Austen's connections with Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame de Stael, Joanna Baillie, Jean Jacques
Rousseau, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, and other writers engaged in
debates on the sensuous experience and the intellectual judgment of
art. Our contributors look at Austen's engagement with diverse art
forms, painting, ballet, drama, poetry, and music, investigating
our topic within historically grounded and theoretically nuanced
essays. They represent Austen as a writer-thinker reflecting on the
nature and practice of artistic creation and considering the
social, moral, psychological, and theological functions of art in
her fiction. We suggest that Austen knew, modified, and transformed
the dominant aesthetic discourses of her era, at times ironically,
to her own artistic ends. As a result, a new, and compelling image
of Austen emerges, a "portrait of a lady artist" confidently
promoting her own distinctly post-enlightenment aesthetic system.
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