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UNINA9910454835103321 |
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Larson Jil |
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Titolo |
Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 / / Jil Larson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
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1-107-12205-8 |
0-521-12167-1 |
0-511-48314-7 |
0-511-15371-6 |
1-280-17782-9 |
0-511-11912-7 |
0-511-04715-0 |
0-511-30353-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Ethics in literature |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Didactic fiction, English - History and criticism |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index. |
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Ethics and the turn to narrative -- Victorian history and ethics: anxiety about agency at the fin-de-siècle -- Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman writers -- When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The mayor of Castorbridge, and Tess -- Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics -- Promises, lies, and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under western eyes. |
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Drawing on interdisciplinary work in the field of ethics and literature by a diverse range of thinkers, including Martha Nussbaum, Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, Jil Larson offers new readings of late Victorian |
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and turn-of-the-century British fiction, she shows how ethical concepts can transform our understanding of narratives, just as narratives make possible a valuable, contextualised moral deliberation. Focusing on novels by Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, 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. This book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth century and modernism, and all interested in the conjunction between narrative, ethics and literary theory. |
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UNINA9910790020803321 |
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Autore |
Runstedtler Theresa |
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Jack Johnson, rebel sojourner [[electronic resource] ] : boxing in the shadow of the global color line / / Theresa Runstedtler |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
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1-280-11671-4 |
9786613521002 |
0-520-95228-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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American crossroads ; ; 33 |
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Boxers (Sports) - United States |
African American boxers |
Boxing - United States - History |
Racism in sports |
United States Race relations History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Embodying Empire -- 2. White Censors, Dark Screens: The Jeffries-Johnson Fight Film Controversy -- 3. Jack |
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Johnson versus John Bull: The Rise of the British Boxing Colour Bar -- 4. The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and the Search for Exile -- 5. Trading Race: Black Bodies and French Regeneration -- 6. Viva Johnson! Fighting over Race in the Americas -- 7. The Empire Strikes Back: The "French Jack Johnson" and the Rising Tide of Color -- Epilogue: Visible Men, Harmless Icons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In his day, Jack Johnson-born in Texas, the son of former slaves-was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, masculine bravado, and interracial love wherever he traveled. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner provides the first in-depth exploration of Johnson's battles against the color line in places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape Town, Paris, Havana, and Mexico City. In relating this dramatic story, Theresa Runstedtler constructs a global history of race, gender, and empire in the early twentieth century. |
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