Constancy & the Ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

by Joyce Kerr Tarpley

What grounds our ethical choices in a modern world of competing versions of virtue and conflicting ideas of law? Constancy, Jane Austen's cardinal virtue, provides a foundation for making such choices. Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park offers a rigorous philosophical examination of the novel, the first book-length, close reading to do so. Joyce Kerr Tarpley begins with an introduction that provides a background for reading Austen's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813217903
• ISBN13: 9780813217901
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"