Literature as a Key to Understanding People, Society and Life

This article uses Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice to illustrate the power of literature as a source of knowledge that transcends the insights of history, sociology, psychology, philosophy and conventional literary criticism. Pride and Prejudice shows how England avoided a French...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janani Ramanathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva 2018-05-01
Series:Cadmus
Online Access:http://cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-3/issue-4/literature-key-understanding-people-society-and-life