Jil Larson

Ethics and Narrative in the English Novel, 1880 1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Jil Larson explores the conjunction between narrative, ethics and literary theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121675
• ISBN-10: 0521121671
• Artikelnr.: 27006742

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Ethics and the turn to narrative
2. Victorian history and ethics: anxiety at the fin-de-siecle
3. Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy, and the New Women Writers
4. When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess
5. Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics
6. Promises, lies and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.