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Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

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Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster book

Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

DOI link for Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster book

ByValerie Wainwright
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 13 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315580371
Pages 222 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315580371
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Wainwright, V. (2007). Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315580371

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART 1: WHAT MATTERS (MOST)

chapter 1|24 pages

Modes and Sensibilities: Varieties of Ethical Thought

chapter 2|12 pages

Narrative Perspectives

part |2 pages

PART 2: ETHICAL DESIGNS

chapter 3|26 pages

On Being Un/reasonable: Mansfi eld Park and the Limits of Persuasion

chapter 4|20 pages

Discovering Autonomy and Authenticity in North and South: Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the Liberal Ethic

chapter 5|18 pages

On Goods, Virtues and Hard Times

chapter 6|20 pages

Anatomizing Excellence: Middlemarch, Moral Saints and the Languages of Belief

chapter 7|18 pages

The Magic in Mentalité: Hardy’s Native Returns

chapter 8|22 pages

Howards End and the Confession of Imperfection

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