Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Larson, Jil
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects:	English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Ethics in literature. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Didactic fiction, English > History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Morale dans la littérature. Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Roman didactique anglais > Histoire et critique. Narration. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.