{"product_id":"jane-austen-and-religion-m-giffin-9780333948088","title":"Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England","description":"Jane Austen is often thought of as a secular author, because religion seems absent from her novels, because she satirises her clerical characters, and because history and literacy criticism - and the literary sensibility of the twenty-first century reader - is overwhelmingly secular. Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's published novels against the background of a 'long eighteenth century' that stretched from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. He demonstrates that Austen is a neoclassical author of the Enlightenment who writes through the twin prisms of British Empiricism and Georgian Anglicanism. His focus is on how Austen's novels mirror a belief in natural law and natural order; and how they reflect John Locke's theory of knowledge through reason, revelation and reflection on experience. His reading suggests there is a thread of neoclassical philosophy and theology running through and between each of Austen's novels, which is best understood in its cultural context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. Giffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0333948084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780333948088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.30w x 0.77d","brand":"M. Giffin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44169648832767,"sku":"9780333948088","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc720725-32a5-45b8-bc9a-4ca08642a370.jpg?v=1689654134","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jane-austen-and-religion-m-giffin-9780333948088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}