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Jane Austen’s Six Novels

This chapter analyzes Jane Austen's six novels, arguing that each is a chronicle of how a heroine learns to think strategically. For example, in Northanger Abbey , Catherine Morland must learn to make her own independent choices in a sequence of increasingly important situations, and in Emma , Emma Woodhouse learns that pride in one's strategic skills can be just another form of cluelessness. In Pride and Prejudice , people's strategic abilities develop the least. Sense and Sensibility explores through the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood how strategic thinking requires both thoughtful decision-making and fanciful speculation. The chapter also examines Persuasion and Mansfield Park . In all six novels, Austen theorizes how people, growing from childhood into adult independence, learn strategic thinking.

Princeton University Press

Michael Suk-Young Chwe

Jane Austen, Game Theorist

2017

Title: Jane Austen’s Six Novels

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This chapter analyzes Jane Austen's six novels, arguing that each is a chronicle of how a heroine learns to think strategically.

For example, in Northanger Abbey , Catherine Morland must learn to make her own independent choices in a sequence of increasingly important situations, and in Emma , Emma Woodhouse learns that pride in one's strategic skills can be just another form of cluelessness.

In Pride and Prejudice , people's strategic abilities develop the least.

Sense and Sensibility explores through the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood how strategic thinking requires both thoughtful decision-making and fanciful speculation.

The chapter also examines Persuasion and Mansfield Park .

In all six novels, Austen theorizes how people, growing from childhood into adult independence, learn strategic thinking.

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