dc.contributor.author |
Medalie, David
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-09-05T06:48:59Z |
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dc.date.available |
2014-09-05T06:48:59Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2013 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This paper situates Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) in relation to Enlightenment ideas
about selfhood. It argues that the moral philosophy of two central figures from
the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume and Adam Smith, may be used to shed
light on Austen’s dramatisation of the self’s interaction with others, especially
in Emma. Of particular importance is the emphasis on ‘sympathy’ in the work
of Hume and Smith. The genuinely ‘sympathetic’ self gains self-knowledge
and self-insight through responsiveness to the perspectives and predicaments of
others. This is in stark contrast to solipsistic conduct, which locks the individual
in a form of moral and epistemological blindness. |
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hb2014 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/reia20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
David Medalie (2013) ‘Myself Creating What I Saw’: Sympathy and Solipsism in Jane Austen's Emma, English Studies in Africa, 56:2, 1-13, DOI:10.1080/00138398.2015.856553 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0013-8398 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1943-8117 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/00138398.2015.856553 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41928 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Routledge |
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dc.rights |
© University of the Witwatersrand and Taylor and Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in English Studies in Africa, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 1-13, 2013, doi : 10.1080/00138398.2015.856553. English Studies in Africa is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/reia20. |
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dc.subject |
Enlightenment |
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dc.subject |
Selfhood |
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dc.subject |
Sympathy |
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dc.subject |
Solipsism |
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dc.subject |
Jane Austen's Emma (1816) |
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dc.subject |
David Hume |
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dc.subject |
Adam Smith |
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dc.title |
'Myself creating what I saw ': sympathy and solipsism in Jane Austen's Emma |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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