Good Form : The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel /

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What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative f...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenthal, Jesse (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Temas:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Analogy.
Anecdote.
Autobiography.
Backstory.
Bildungsroman.
Cambridge University Press.
Character (arts).
Charles Dickens.
Conscience.
Consciousness.
Crime fiction.
Criticism.
Critique of Pure Reason.
D. A. Miller.
Daniel Deronda.
Deus ex machina.
E. M. Forster.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Elizabeth Gaskell.
Epic poetry.
Ethics.
Eugene Aram.
Explanation.
Fiction.
Franco Moretti.
Fredric Jameson.
Genre fiction.
Genre.
George Eliot.
George Meredith.
Good and evil.
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals.
Gwendolen Harleth.
Gwendolen.
Halpern.
Historical fiction.
Humour.
I Wish (manhwa).
Ian Watt.
Illustration.
Intuitionism.
Jack Sheppard.
James Clerk Maxwell.
John Stuart Mill.
Johns Hopkins.
Jonathan Wild.
Laughter.
Lecture.
Leopold Zunz.
Literary criticism.
Literary realism.
Literature.
Mary Barton.
Meditations.
Middlemarch.
Misery (novel).
Morality.
Narration.
Narrative structure.
Narrative.
Newgate novel.
Novel.
Novelist.
Oxford University Press.
Parody.
Paul Clifford.
Phenomenon.
Philosopher.
Philosophy.
Poetry.
Political philosophy.
Practical reason.
Probability.
Prose.
Publication.
Quantity.
Reason.
Ridicule.
Roland Barthes.
Rookwood (novel).
Sensation novel.
Steven Marcus.
Subplot.
Suggestion.
Teleology.
The Intuitionist.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
The Marriage Plot.
The Other Hand.
The Pickwick Papers.
Theft.
Theory.
Thought.
Usage.
Utilitarianism.
Victorian literature.
William Harrison Ainsworth.
William Whewell.
Writer.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "Moralised Fables"
  • Chapter 1: What Feels Right: Ethics, Intuition, and the Experience of Narrative
  • Chapter 2: The Subject of the Newgate Novel: Crime, Interest, What Novels Are About
  • Chapter 3: Getting David Copperfield: Humor, Sensus Communis, and Moral Agreement
  • Chapter 4: Back in Time: The Bildungsroman and the Source of Moral Agency
  • Chapter 5: The Large Novel and the Law of Large Numbers: Daniel Deronda and the Counterintuitive
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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