Jane Austen''s Anglicanism

In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, 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. White argues that viewing Austen's Anglicanism through the lens of primary sources of the period provides a context for

List of contents

Part 1 Jane Austen and Anglicanism; Introduction, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 1 Jane Austen's Religious Inheritance: The Georgian Church, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 2 Jane Austen as an Anglican and Anglicanism in the Novels, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 3 Austen and the Anglican Worldview, Laura Mooneyham White; Part 2 The Sins of the Author; Chapter 4 Wordplay, Candor, and Malice, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 5 World-making, Laura Mooneyham White; Chapter 102 Coda Austen and The Importance of Being Earnest, Laura Mooneyham White;

About the author

Laura Mooneyham White is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA. Her scholarship focuses on the novels of Jane Austen and other works of nineteenth-century British literature.

Summary

In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, 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. White argues that viewing Austen's Anglicanism through the lens of primary sources of the period provides a context for

Product details

• Authors: Laura Mooneyham White, White Laura Mooneyham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032926544
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3292654-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Religion: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism