05078oam 2200745I 450 991081219350332120240131144216.01-136-15626-71-283-97324-30-203-07869-11-136-15627-510.4324/9780203078693 (CKB)2670000000325586(EBL)1114680(OCoLC)827208937(SSID)ssj0000822267(PQKBManifestationID)11524107(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822267(PQKBWorkID)10755751(PQKB)11061337(MiAaPQ)EBC1114680(Au-PeEL)EBL1114680(CaPaEBR)ebr10650236(CaONFJC)MIL428574(OCoLC)826685150(FINmELB)ELB134184(EXLCZ)99267000000032558620180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarrative hospitality in late Victorian fiction novel ethics /Rachel HollanderNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (231 p.)Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;8Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;8Description based upon print version of record.1-138-10792-1 0-415-62824-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction: Novel Ethics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "The Ardent Eighties": Hospitality and Realism at the End of the Century; 2 George Eliot Leaves Home: The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda; 3 "This house from this moment is yours and not mine": Unconditional Hospitality in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders; 4 Unhomely Ethics and Radical Intimacy in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm; 5 Homeless Modernity in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room; Afterword: Hospitality of the "Post-"; Notes; Bibliography; Index"Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist English novel produce a new ethics of hospitality. Hollander reads texts that both portray and enact a unique ethical orientation of welcoming the other, a narrative hospitality that combines the Victorians' commitment to engaging with the real world with a more modern awareness of difference and the limits of knowledge. While classic nineteenth-century realism rests on a sympathy-based model of moral relations, novels by authors such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner present instead an ethical recognition of the distance between self and other. Opening themselves to the other in their very structure and narrative form, the visited texts both represent and theorize the ethics of hospitality, anticipating twentieth-century philosophy's recognition of the limits of sympathy. As colonial conflicts, nationalist anxiety, and the intensification of the "woman question" became dominant cultural concerns in the 1870s and 80s, the problem of self and other, known and unknown, began to saturate and define the representation of home in the English novel. This book argues that in the wake of an erosion of confidence in the ability to understand that which is unlike the self, a moral code founded on sympathy gave way to an ethics of hospitality, in which the concept of home shifts to acknowledge the permeability and vulnerability of not only domestic but also national spaces. Concluding with Virginia Woolf's reexamination of the novel's potential to educate the reader in negotiating relations of alterity in a more fully modernist moment, Hollander suggest that the late Victorian novel embodies a unique and previously unrecognized ethical mode between Victorian realism and a post-World- War-I ethics of modernist form. "--Provided by publisher.Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century LiteratureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEthics in literatureHospitality in literatureLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPoststructuralismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Ethics in literature.Hospitality in literature.Literature and societyHistoryPoststructuralism.823/.809LIT004290PHI005000LIT004120bisacshHollander Rachel1969-,1715997MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812193503321Narrative hospitality in late Victorian fiction4111037UNINA