LEADER 05078oam 2200745I 450 001 9910812193503321 005 20240131144216.0 010 $a1-136-15626-7 010 $a1-283-97324-3 010 $a0-203-07869-1 010 $a1-136-15627-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203078693 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325586 035 $a(EBL)1114680 035 $a(OCoLC)827208937 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822267 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11524107 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822267 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10755751 035 $a(PQKB)11061337 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1114680 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1114680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10650236 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL428574 035 $a(OCoLC)826685150 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134184 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325586 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarrative hospitality in late Victorian fiction $enovel ethics /$fRachel Hollander 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$v8 225 0$aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-10792-1 311 $a0-415-62824-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $a"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. "--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aHospitality in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPoststructuralism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aHospitality in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aPoststructuralism. 676 $a823/.809 686 $aLIT004290$aPHI005000$aLIT004120$2bisacsh 700 $aHollander$b Rachel$f1969-,$01715997 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812193503321 996 $aNarrative hospitality in late Victorian fiction$94111037 997 $aUNINA