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In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham
White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its
strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely
different presumptions about the cosmos and human nature. While
Austen's readers often project postmodern and secular perspectives
onto an Austen who reflects their own times and values, White
argues that viewing Austen's Anglicanism through the lens of
primary sources of the period, including the complex history of the
Georgian church to which Austen was intimately connected all her
life, provides a context for understanding the central conflict
between Austen's malicious wit and her family's testimony to her
Christian piety and kindness. White draws connections between
Austen's experiences with the clergy, liturgy, doctrine, and
religious readings and their fictional parallels in the novels;
shows how orthodox Anglican concepts such as natural law and the
Great Chain of Being resonate in Austen's work; and explores
Austen's awareness of the moral problems of authorship relative to
God as Creator. She concludes by surveying the ontological and
moral gulf between the worldview of Emma and Oscar Wilde's The
Importance of Being Earnest, arguing that the evangelical
earnestness of Austen's day had become a figure of mockery by the
late nineteenth century.
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