Valerie Wainwright

Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on major works by Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Valerie Wainwright draws upon new research to trace the ways in which the ethical interests and ideas of philosophers and intellectuals, both famous and obscure, were taken up and reappraised as authors tackled the implications of an expansive ethics of well-being and self-fulfillment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317141228
• Artikelnr.: 45095877

Autorenporträt

Valerie Wainwright is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Florence, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I What Matters (MOST)
Chapter 1 Modes and Sensibilities
Chapter 2 Narrative Perspectives
Part II Ethical Designs
Chapter 3 On Being Un/reasonable
Chapter 4 Discovering Autonomy and Authenticity in North and South
Chapter 5 On Goods, Virtues and Hard Times
Chapter 6 Anatomizing Excellence
Chapter 7 The Magic in Mentalité
Chapter 8 Howards End and the Confession of Imperfection
Chapter 101 Afterword