Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster / Valerie Wainwright.

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Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

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text

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ISBN:

9780754684183
0754684180
1317141229
9781317141228
1317141210
9781317141211
1281104159
9781281104151
9786611104153
6611104151

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster.DDC classification:

823/.809384 22

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PR868.E67 W35 2007eb

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Contents:

Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.

Summary: Focusing on major works by Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Valerie Wainwright draws upon new research to trace the ways in which the ethical interests and ideas of philosophers and intellectuals, both famous and obscure, were taken up and reappraised as authors tackled the implications of an expansive ethics of well-being and self-fulfillment.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

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Focusing on major works by Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Valerie Wainwright draws upon new research to trace the ways in which the ethical interests and ideas of philosophers and intellectuals, both famous and obscure, were taken up and reappraised as authors tackled the implications of an expansive ethics of well-being and self-fulfillment.

English.

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