Date of Award
2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
First Advisor
Carnell, Rachel
Subject Headings
British and Irish Literature
Abstract
During the eighteenth-century, philosophers gave primacy to rationality specifying that reason could and should control emotions; they observed a friction between thought and feeling, rational and irrational, emotion and cognition, mind and body, which competed and united in a way that influenced the eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century thought and experience on many sides. As an early nineteenth-century novelist, Jane Austen explores the relationship between emotion and cognition. I argue that Austen shows the importance of bodily experience of emotion in moral development. Deploying affect theory will illuminate Austen’s depiction of emotions as a mode of understanding of how the body becomes the place for knowledge and experience.
Recommended Citation
Abdelfattah, Nadya, "“The Deepest Blush”: Bodily States of Emotions in Jane Austen’s Novels" (2018). ETD Archive. 1086.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/etdarchive/1086
