Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster
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ethical theory in nineteenth-century novels
Eustacia Vye
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Fanny Price
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Gaskell's Narrative
Gaskell’s Narrative
Good Life
Hardy's Hero
Hardy’s Hero
Helen Bosanquet
Honourable Ambition
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Howards End
Leonard's Death
Leonard’s Death
literary ethics
Mansfield Park
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Mrs Sparsit
Mrs Yeobright
narrative perspective studies
Paul Gauguin
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Susan Nunsuch
Tragic Flaw
Vice Versa
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Victorian moral philosophy
Victorian Social Fiction
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Volitional Necessities
Worldly Annoyances
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754654322
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Valerie Wainwright is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Florence, Italy.
