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: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780521792820
• ISBN-10: 0521792827
• Artikelnr.: 35456851

Autorenporträt

Jil Larson is Assistant Professor of English at Western Michigan University. A former managing editor of Victorian Studies, she has published on Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and ethics and literature. She is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University.

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.