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Philosophy in Austen's pump room: How enlightened tolerance became disgust

Journal Article Eighteenth Century Fiction · January 1, 2020 This article reads Immanuel Kant's “Perpetual Peace” (1795) alongside Jane Austen's Emma (1815) and Persuasion (1817) to show how national character-a concept grounded in shared taste through culture rather than territory-could be maintained in a rapidly g ... Full text Cite
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