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The Burdens of Perfection : On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature /
"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction
- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement
- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire
- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will
- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse
- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration
- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement
- 4. Perfectly Helpless
- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman
- 6. The Knowledge of Shame
- 7. On Lives Unled
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index