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Jane Austen’s Emma: The Reconstrual of Imagination and RomanceIn Eva M. Dadlez (ed.), Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives, Oup Usa. 2018.Emma has often convincingly been assigned to the “quixotic” novel, a genre much favored by the long eighteenth century and admired on occasion by Jane Austen herself. But whereas novels of this type invariably end with a joint renunciation of imagination and romance in deference to a greater realism, Emma shows imagination to be integral to an apprehension of the real world, and to require, for its fidelity, a principle long enshrined by romance. Austen’s understanding of imagination as both nec…Read more
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