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- Title: Unpersuaded (Jane Austen and the Enlightenment) (Book Review)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 171 KB
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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, by Peter Knox-Shaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 275pp. "SHE IS THE PARTISAN of virtue alone." (1) With those sonorous words Alasdair MacIntyre dismissed Marilyn Butler's attempt to identify Jane Austen with the Burkean conservatives of the French Revolutionary period in her now well-known study Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975). MacIntyre, no friend to Burke, perhaps reacted somewhat strenuously against Butler's case, but then Butler's case was overstated. MacIntyre was certainly right to suggest that Austen's conservatism must not be understood as mere party doctrine--hers was a cast of mind altogether deeper and more reflective than any political platform can be.
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