Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2001.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42036963*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
