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JANE AUSTON'S MORAL VISIONS |
Jane Austen (1775-1817) wrote
delicious romantic comedies about middle-class girls looking for good husbands
among the landed gentry of Regency England. But if that were all there was to
it we wouldn’t take her any more seriously now than the genre hacks published
by Mills and Boon. What’s so special about her novels that we are still reading
them today? It’s not just their literary quality. Austen was also a brilliant
moral philosopher who analysed and taught a virtue ethics for middle-class life
that is surprisingly contemporary. Appreciating this can help us understand why
she wrote the way she did, and how and why we should read her today. MORE
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