Emma and the “Chimera of Relativism”

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2021-07-22 DOI:10.1353/sel.2020.0028

Yasmin Solomonescu

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Abstract

Abstract:While a hallmark of Jane Austen’s fiction is that characters’ firmly held own truths often become the basis for learning a few home truths, something distinctive is at work in Emma. This article argues that the novel distinguishes an ethically viable relativism from the alternatives of both an absolutist belief in fixed truths and the anything-goes attitude recently dubbed the “chimera of relativism.” Expressed chiefly through plot developments, dialogue, and narrative technique, this stance has significant consequences for how we understand the novel and how we understand the kinds of social and interpretive community that it imagines.

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.