Jane Austen and Other Minds - Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction

Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen's finished novels through an ambitious choice to pair analysis of her novelistic ordinary language - her style, conversation, and moral thought - with the major practitioners of twentieth-century ordinary language philosophy, including J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction. On Criticism and Other 'Middle Subjects'; 1. Austen and Austin; 2. Intelligible Community; 3. Sense and Sensibility and Suffering; 4. Pride and Prejudice and the Comedy of Perfectionism; 5. Perlocutionary Entailments; 6. Emma and Other Minds; 7. Persuasion, Conviction, and Care: Jane Austen's Keeping; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Eric Reid Lindstrom is the author of Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry (2011), and editor of Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism (2014). His essays on Jane Austen, Romantic and modern poetry, ordinary language, and philosophical poetics have appeared widely in academic journals. He lives in Vermont and Louisiana.

Summary

Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen's finished novels through an ambitious choice to pair analysis of her novelistic ordinary language — her style, conversation, and moral thought — with the major practitioners of twentieth-century ordinary language philosophy, including J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell.

Foreword

Jane Austen and Other Minds demonstrates how Austen's fiction is both philosophy and a resource to ordinary language philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Reid Lindstrom, Eric Reid (University of Vermont) Lindstrom
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009206952
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0920695-2
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form