Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndtâ s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to, but in interaction with society.
Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndtâ s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to, but in interaction with society.
Katrin Berndt is Associate Professor of British and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bremen, Germany.
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List of Contents Introduction 1 The Virtuousness of Conventions: Friendship and the Ethics of Fiction 1.1. Friendship Values, Friendship Virtues in Frances Brooke's The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763) 1.2. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and the Narcissistic Impotence of Romantic Friendship 2 Public or Private? Friendship and the Novel Sphere in Utopian and Sentimental Writing 2.1. A Utopian Conjunction? Philanthropic Design and Particular Friendship in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762) 2.2. Helen Maria Williams's Julia (1790) and the Paradigm of Active Sensibility in the Sentimental Novel 3 A Question of Perspective and Character: Friendship and Narrative Situation 3.1. 'Excite me to Virtue': Friendship as Reason and Purpose in Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia (1790) 3.2. The Perceptive Pluralism of Friendship in Sir Walter Scott's Redgauntlet (1824) 4 The Progress of the Plot: Epistemologies of Friendly Interventions 4.1. Not False, but Wrong? Friendly Interventions in Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) 4.2. Friendship, Truth, and the Generosity of Heart in Maria Edgeworth's Helen (1834) Conclusion: Friendship and the Novel Genre Bibliography
List of Contents Introduction 1 The Virtuousness of Conventions: Friendship and the Ethics of Fiction 1.1. Friendship Values, Friendship Virtues in Frances Brooke's The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763) 1.2. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and the Narcissistic Impotence of Romantic Friendship 2 Public or Private? Friendship and the Novel Sphere in Utopian and Sentimental Writing 2.1. A Utopian Conjunction? Philanthropic Design and Particular Friendship in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762) 2.2. Helen Maria Williams's Julia (1790) and the Paradigm of Active Sensibility in the Sentimental Novel 3 A Question of Perspective and Character: Friendship and Narrative Situation 3.1. 'Excite me to Virtue': Friendship as Reason and Purpose in Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia (1790) 3.2. The Perceptive Pluralism of Friendship in Sir Walter Scott's Redgauntlet (1824) 4 The Progress of the Plot: Epistemologies of Friendly Interventions 4.1. Not False, but Wrong? Friendly Interventions in Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) 4.2. Friendship, Truth, and the Generosity of Heart in Maria Edgeworth's Helen (1834) Conclusion: Friendship and the Novel Genre Bibliography
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