Jane Austen and Philosophy

Mimi Marinucci is a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at Eastern Washington University. She resides in Cheney, WA.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: “How Much Sooner One Tires of Anything” than of Jane Austen -- Mimi MarinucciPart I. Love and Marriage1 Love in the Time of Epistemic Injustice -- Vittorio Bufacchi2 Can there be Sense without Sensibility? The Middle Road to Love and Marriage in Jane Austen -- Sally Winkle3 Love, Marriage and Dialectics in the Novels of Jane Austen -- Suzie Gibson4 Beyond Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austin and Friedrich Nietzsche on What Makes a Happy Marriage -- William A. Lindenmuth5 Marriage and Friendship in Jane Austen: Self-knowledge, Virtue, and the “Second Self” -- Kathleen DoughertyPart II. Morality and Virtue6 Finding Happiness at Hartfield -- Janelle Pötzsch7 The Last Great Representative of the Virtues: MacIntyre after Austen -- David LaRocca8 Jane Austen on Moral Luck -- Eva DadlezPart III. Wealth and Class9 Women Owning Property: The Great Lady in Jane Austen -- Rita Oliveira10 Deconstructing Entailment -- Christopher Ketcham11 “Pictures of Perfection Make Me Sick and Wicked”: Privilege and Parody in Emma -- Nancy Marck Cantwell12 “The Middle Classes at Play”: Austen and Marx Go to Hollywood -- Charles BanePart IV. Concepts and Clarifications13 Do You Want to Know a Secret? The Immorality and Morality of Secrets and the Subversive Jane Austen -- Elizabeth Olson and Charles Taliaferro14 Persuasion, Influence, and Over-Persuasion -- Keith Dromm and Heather Salter15 The Language Games of Persuasion -- Richard GilmorePart V. Monsters and Zombies16 Dead and Alive: Austen’s Role in Mashup Literature -- Amanda Riter17 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Regency, Repression, and Roundhouse Kicks -- Andrea Zanin18 “Till This Moment I Never Knew Myself”: On Identities and Zombies -- A.G. HoldierIndexAbout the Contributors

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