Heroic commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James / Patricia McKee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. An Introduction of Critical Issues -- Chapter Two. Corresponding Freedoms: Language and the Self in Pamela -- Chapter Three. Richardson's Clarissa: Authority in Excess -- Chapter Four. Power as Partiality in Middlemarch -- Chapter Five. George Eliot's Redemption of Meaning: Daniel Deronda -- Chapter Six. The Gift of Acceptance: The Golden Bowl -- Afterword -- Index.

Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson, Eliot, and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human self, human relations, and literature as primary sources of meaningfulness. The relationships these novels portray as most satisfying are unsettled and unsettling, interfering with rather than contributing to social stability. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

In English.

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