Ethics And The English Novel From Austen To Forster

Author : Valerie Wainwright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317141211

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Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster by Valerie Wainwright Pdf

Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles of life that are worthy and fulfilling, admirable and rewarding. Presenting new research into the ethical debates in which these authors participated, this rigorous and energetic work reveals the ways in which ideas of major theorists such as Kant, F. H. Bradley, or John Stuart Mill, as well as those of now little-known writers such as the priest Edward Tagart, the preacher William Maccall, and philanthropist Helen Dendy Bosanquet, were appropriated and reappraised. Further, Wainwright seeks also to place these novelists within the wider context of modernity and proposes that their responses can be linked to the on-going and animated discussions that characterize modern moral philosophy.

Author : Valerie Wainwright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317141228

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Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster by Valerie Wainwright Pdf

Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles of life that are worthy and fulfilling, admirable and rewarding. Presenting new research into the ethical debates in which these authors participated, this rigorous and energetic work reveals the ways in which ideas of major theorists such as Kant, F. H. Bradley, or John Stuart Mill, as well as those of now little-known writers such as the priest Edward Tagart, the preacher William Maccall, and philanthropist Helen Dendy Bosanquet, were appropriated and reappraised. Further, Wainwright seeks also to place these novelists within the wider context of modernity and proposes that their responses can be linked to the on-going and animated discussions that characterize modern moral philosophy.

Author : Thomas Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000029260

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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot by Thomas Albrecht Pdf

The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a profoundly significant, influential figure not only in nineteenth-century English and European literature, nineteenth-century women’s writing, the history of the novel, and Victorian intellectual culture, but also in the field of literary ethics. Ethics are a predominant theme in Eliot’s fictional and non-fictional writings. Her ethical insights and ideas are a defining element of her greatness as an artist and novelist. Through meticulous close readings of Eliot’s fiction, essays, and letters, The Ethical Vision of George Eliot presents an original, complex definition of her ethical vision as she developed it over the course of her career. It examines major novels like Adam Bede, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda; many of Eliot’s most significant essays; and devotes two entire chapters to Eliot’s final book Impressions of Theophrastus Such, an idiosyncratic collection of character sketches that Eliot scholars have heretofore generally overlooked or ignored. The Ethical Vision of George Eliot demonstrates that Eliot defined her ethical vision alternately in terms of revealing and strengthening a fundamental human communion that links us to other persons, however different and remote from ourselves; and in terms of recognizing and respecting the otherness of other persons, and of the universe more generally, from ourselves. Over the course of her career, Eliot increasingly transitions from the former towards the latter imperative, but she also considerably complicates her conception of otherness, and of what it means to be ethically responsible to it.

Author : Patrick Fessenbecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474460620

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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature by Patrick Fessenbecker Pdf

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.

Author : Susan E. Colon
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441146502

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Victorian Parables by Susan E. Colon Pdf

The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. In this book Susan E. Colòn shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral ideas. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107010154

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The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice' by Janet Todd Pdf

This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848880603

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Making Sense of Suffering: Theory, Practice, Representation by Anonim Pdf

Suffering may be universal, but it is not universally understood. In this collection, scholars from many nations and disciplines explore theoretical and practical approaches to understanding suffering as well as the ethics and effects of representing suffering in art and literature.

Author : Dermot Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107057210

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George Eliot and Money by Dermot Coleman Pdf

This book examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England.

Author : Nate Hinerman,Matthew Lewis Sutton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004399174

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On Suffering: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Narrative and Suffering by Nate Hinerman,Matthew Lewis Sutton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213173573

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The Hardy Society Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor J. Seidler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857713940

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Jewish Philosophy and Western Culture by Victor J. Seidler Pdf

This is one of the first textbooks to try to set the entire discipline of Jewish philosophy in its proper cultural and historical contexts. In so doing, it introduces the vibrant Jewish philosophical tradition to students while also making a significant contribution to inter-religious dialogue. Victor J Seidler argues that the dominant Platonic tradition in the West has led to a form of cultural ethics which asserts false superiority in its relationships with others. He offers a critical reappraisal of the philosophical underpinnings of this western Christian culture which for so long has viewed Judaism with hostility. Examining the work of seminal Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Buber, Mendelsohn, Herman Cohen, Leo Baeck, Levinas, Rosenzweig and others, the author argues for a code of ethics which prioritises particular and personal moral responsibility rather than the impersonal and universal emphases of the Greek tradition. His provocative and original overview of Jewish philosophy uncovers a vital and neglected tradition of thought which works against the likelihood of a Holocaust recurring.

Author : L. Driscoll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230622487

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Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature by L. Driscoll Pdf

This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory. Driscoll critiques the way postmodern theory idealizes contemporary British literature as a space of fluid, flexible decentered subjects, arguing that beneath this ideology are clear evasions of class. Offering critical readings of canonized middle-class authors from Martin Amis to Graham Swift, Driscoll makes the compelling argument that the contemporary British novel, assisted by "class blind? postmodern literary theory consistently works to control the problem of class.

Author : John J. Su
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139448536

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Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel by John J. Su Pdf

Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. Despite deep cultural differences, novelists from Africa, the Caribbean, Great Britain, and the United States share a sense that the economic, social, and political forces associated with late modernity have evoked widespread nostalgia within the communities in which they write. In this original and wide-ranging study, John J. Su explores the relationship between nostalgia and ethics in novels across the English-speaking world. He challenges the tendency in literary studies to characterise memory as positive and nostalgia as necessarily negative. Instead, this book argues that nostalgic fantasies are crucial to the ethical visions presented by topical novels. From Jean Rhys to Wole Soyinka and from V. S. Naipaul to Toni Morrison, Su identifies nostalgia as a central concern in the twentieth-century novel.

Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623569846

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Ian McEwan by Sebastian Groes Pdf

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically - and academically - acclaimed and embraced by readers across the world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. Across these many forms his work retains a distinctive character that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, sexuality and gender. Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together a collection of new critical perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including new readings of his latest books, Solar and Sweet Tooth. With an updated and extended guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes an interview with the author himself, a chronology of his life, work and times and the full text of a lost early McEwan short story.

Author : Alice Crary
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674034617

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Beyond Moral Judgment by Alice Crary Pdf

What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose? Alice Crary's book Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on judgments that apply moral concepts (for example, "good," "wrong," "selfish," "courageous") and a corresponding failure to register that moral thinking includes more than such judgments. Drawing on what she describes as widely misinterpreted lines of thought in the writings of Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, Crary argues that language is an inherently moral acquisition and that any stretch of thought, without regard to whether it uses moral concepts, may express the moral outlook encoded in a person's modes of speech. She challenges us to overcome our fixation on moral judgments and direct attention to responses that animate all our individual linguistic habits. Her argument incorporates insights from McDowell, Wiggins, Diamond, Cavell, and Murdoch and integrates a rich set of examples from feminist theory as well as from literature, including works by Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Tolstoy, Henry James, and Theodor Fontane. The result is a powerful case for transforming our understanding of the difficulty of moral reflection and of the scope of our ethical concerns.