03678nam 2200733 a 450 991082895340332120200520144314.01-107-12205-80-521-12167-10-511-48314-70-511-15371-61-280-17782-90-511-11912-70-511-04715-00-511-30353-X(CKB)111056485623614(EBL)202317(OCoLC)171135158(SSID)ssj0000149888(PQKBManifestationID)11149446(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149888(PQKBWorkID)10239634(PQKB)10045493(UkCbUP)CR9780511483141(MiAaPQ)EBC202317(Au-PeEL)EBL202317(CaPaEBR)ebr5007887(CaONFJC)MIL17782(EXLCZ)9911105648562361420000501d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEthics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 /Jil Larson1st ed.New York Cambridge University Press20011 online resource (ix, 176 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-79282-7 0-511-01774-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.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.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 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.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEthics in literatureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismDidactic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)English fictionHistory and criticism.Ethics in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.Didactic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)823/.809353Larson Jil686724MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828953403321Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-19141271446UNINA