Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

ISBN-13: 9781138264939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str.

Valerie Wainwright

Opis

Focusing on major works by Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Valerie Wainwright draws upon new research to trace the ways in which the ethical interests and ideas of philosophers and intellectuals, both famous and obscure, were taken up and reappraised as authors tackled the implications of an expansive ethics of well-being and self-fulfillment.

Recenzje

’Here is a solid, well-researched and clearly-presented argument on the ethical theories and presuppositions which affected the writing, the reading and the reviewing of a range of writers... The book is underpinned by very extensive reading indeed... Individual chapters each yield provocative readings, but best of all is the book's progress towards the present and the infuriating unwillingness of the authors' texts to sit still while we use it to perceive, or to reinforce, or to attack ethical positions. It is a book to re-read and to send the reader into new reading.’ The Gaskell Society Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I What Matters (MOST); Chapter 1 Modes and Sensibilities; Chapter 2 Narrative Perspectives; Part II Ethical Designs; Chapter 3 On Being Un/reasonable; Chapter 4 Discovering Autonomy and Authenticity in North and South; Chapter 5 On Goods, Virtues and Hard Times; Chapter 6 Anatomizing Excellence; Chapter 7 The Magic in Mentalité; Chapter 8 Howards End and the Confession of Imperfection; Chapter 101 Afterword;

O autorze

Valerie Wainwright is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Florence, Italy.