Sense and Sensibility as Social-Epistemic System

IF 0.5 2区文学 0 LITERATURE STUDIES IN THE NOVEL Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1353/sdn.2023.a899469

Aaron R. Hanlon

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Abstract

Abstract:This article examines systems of inductive and deductive reasoning in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), placing Austen’s first novel in a longer historical context of how novels functioned as systems of social epistemology, or of scaling-up social knowledge. In so doing, this article demonstrates how Marianne, typically read as the unsystematic counterpart to her rational older sister, Elinor, actually proceeds from a rational system for making social judgments. The pitfalls both of these characters encounter due to flawed judgments are part of how Sense and Sensibility builds critique and error correction into its illustrations of social conundrums based on imperfect information, offering a model system for readers who would encounter comparable circumstances.

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作为社会认识系统的理智与情感

摘要：本文考察了简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》（1811）中的归纳推理和演绎推理系统，将奥斯汀的第一部小说置于一个更长的历史背景中，即小说如何作为社会认识论系统或扩大社会知识的系统发挥作用。在这样做的过程中，这篇文章展示了玛丽安，通常被解读为她理性的姐姐埃莉诺的非系统对应者，实际上是如何从一个理性的社会判断系统中走出来的。这两个角色都因有缺陷的判断而遇到的陷阱，是《理智与情感》如何在其基于不完美信息的社会难题插图中构建批评和纠错的一部分，为遇到类似情况的读者提供了一个模型系统。

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期刊介绍： From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.