• Dr. Kokila Sehgal Mathur

Jane Austen is regarded as one of the great classical writers in the pantheon of English literature. Macaulay called her a ‘prose Shakespeare’. She delineates the lives of genteel English people with the delicacy and finesse of a miniaturist. In creating and interpreting human motives and character she is nonpareil. Though she writes of three-four families in a typical English village with its eighteenth century social hierarchical set-up, yet her narratives have unique malleability and cultural translatability and become a classic point of reference. They become excellent guides to navigating a world full of change and its attendant chaos. They resonate with twenty- first century debates about ‘civil society’. Is civil society a social construct or does it incorporate a description of human capacities and approach; is it a factor of economics or an enterprise of intellectuality or is it a cultural torque which will engineer a redescription of Aristotle’s ‘koinonia politike’ or human community? A re-reading of Emma in the pandemic isolationism reveals the Austenian narrative as enriching.

regenerative, cultural translatability, perception, human community

"'Our Stability in Good Thoughts': Revisiting 'Emma' in Pandemic Times", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.b379-b381, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208150.pdf

"'Our Stability in Good Thoughts': Revisiting 'Emma' in Pandemic Times", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppb379-b381, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208150.pdf