Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 / / Jil Larson [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Larson Jil
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.809353
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Ethics & Narrative in the English Novel, 1880-1914
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779922403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II