Peter Knox-Shaw
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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

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Short description/annotationPeter Knox-Shaw draws out the Enlightenment principles and ideas which lie behind much of Austen's writing.Main descriptionJane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her c...