The Novel and the Problem of New Life

ISBN-13: 9781108970563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 263 str.

California) Matz Aaron (Scripps College

Opis

An expansive study of the novel's moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

Recenzje

'… learned and engaging … Matz offers a valuable genealogy for a contemporary conception of fiction as embodying our responsibility to an uncertain future.' Matthew Rowlinson, MLQ: A Journal of Literary History

Spis treści

1. Order and Origin; 2. Revenge of the Unborn; 3. Hardy and the Vanity of Procreation; 4. Lawrence's Storm of Fecundity; 5. The Children of Others in Woolf; 6. Reproduction and Dystopia; 7. Lessing on Generations and Freedom; 8. Procreating on Patmos.