Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel

ISBN-13: 9780691196640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Jesse Rosenthal

Opis

What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form-of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion-with inner