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Le ipotesi di Jane Austen: emozioni, inferenze e suspense in Pride and Prejudice

This essay connects Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Hume's philosophy of mind. Elizabeth Bennet's inferences and misinterpretations echo Humean psychology, generating suspense: hypothetical and probabilistic thought, tried by Defoe and Richardson, become central narrative devices.

  • Keywords:
  • Emotions,
  • cognition,
  • suspense,
  • inferences,
  • realism,
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Le ipotesi di Jane Austen: emozioni, inferenze e suspense in Pride and Prejudice

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10.36253/979-12-215-1157-4.09

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Scritture del particolare. Romanzo e sciences de l’homme tra Sette e Ottocento

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Atti del Convegno di Siena (23-24 aprile 2025)

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David Matteini

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Studi di letterature moderne e comparate

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