Moral Style in Victorian Fiction
Author | : Sarah Danielle Allison |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Sarah Danielle Allison |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Matthew Sussman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108832946 |
Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.
Author | : Jesse Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 069117170X |
What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form—of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion—with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian “intuitionist” philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre’s formal properties. For most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period’s least attractive and interesting qualities. But Good Form argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form—and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels. Bringing together ideas from philosophy, literary history, and narrative theory, Rosenthal shows that we cannot understand the formal principles of the novel that we have inherited from the nineteenth century without also understanding the moral principles that have come with them. Good Form helps us to understand the way Victorians read, but it also helps us to understand the way we read now.
Author | : Daniel Tyler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108427510 |
Demonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.
Author | : Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anthony Comstock |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Morals versus Art by Anthony Comstock Comstock was a fervent advocate of Victorian morality and led a campaign to ce3nsor things he considered vulgar or offensive. His book, Morals versus Art, he describes as an attempt to decide what is lewd, obscene or impure in terms of the law.
Author | : Ian Watt |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195013221 |
A collection of essays which describes the reading audience, publication methods, and literary style of the Victorian novel and provides a critical analysis of the period's major fiction writers.
Author | : Jerome Hamilton Buckley |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674962057 |
Author | : Jesse Rosenthal |
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : Talia Schaffer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691226512 |
What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care. In the Victorian era, medical science offered little hope for cure of illness or disability, and chronic invalidism and lengthy convalescences were common. Small communities might gather around afflicted individuals to minister to their needs and palliate their suffering. Communities of Care examines these groups in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Charlotte Yonge, and studies the relationships that they exemplify. How do carers become part of the community? How do they negotiate status? How do caring emotions develop? And what does it mean to think of care as an activity rather than a feeling? Contrasting the Victorian emphasis on community and social structure with modern individualism and interiority, Schaffer’s sympathetic readings draw us closer to the worldview from which these novels emerged. Schaffer also considers the ways in which these models of carework could inform and improve practice in criticism, in teaching, and in our daily lives. Through the lens of care, Schaffer discovers a vital form of communal relationship in the Victorian novel. Communities of Care also demonstrates that literary criticism done well is the best care that scholars can give to texts.