Ethics and Narrative in the English Novel, 1880–1914
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- Author: Jil Larson, Western Michigan University
- Date Published: October 2009
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- isbn: 9780521121675
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Drawing on interdisciplinary work in the field of ethics by a diverse range of thinkers, including Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, Jil Larson offers new readings of late-Victorian and turn-of-the-century British fiction. Focusing on novels by Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad, Larson explores the conjunction of ethics and fin-de-siècle history and culture through a consideration of what narratives from this period tell us about emotion, reason, and gender, aestheticism, and such speech acts as promising and lying.
Read more- Contributes to the interdisciplinary field of ethics
- Offers a new approach to the narrative of the novel
- May be of additional interest to philosophers
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"...Larson's book is a challenging reevaluation of ethical criticism and Victorian novels." Religious Studies Review
See more reviews"Larson's book proves to be a solid study of ethics and narrative...The Afterword is valuable for its succinct recapitulation of the study's premises and conclusions. The volume concludes with twenty-two pages of notes, a solid bibliography, and a short index." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
"Jil Larson offers an intriguing new volume...Larson's ethical readings succeed admirably in terms of ethical criticism's interpretive potential for both camps." George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies
"This is a valuable moment in a study by a critic with a rare combination of knowledge of recent moral philosophy, ethical criticism, and criticism of late-nineteenth-century British novelists." Victorian Studies
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- Date Published: October 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521121675
- length: 188 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.28kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Ethics and the turn to narrative
2. Victorian history and ethics: anxiety at the fin-de-siecle
3. Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy, and the New Women Writers
4. When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess
5. Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics
6. Promises, lies and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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