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Good form : the ethical experience of the Victorian novel / Jesse Rosenthal.
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Rosenthal, Jesse
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English
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.
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xii, 256 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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PR878.E67 R67 2017
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Ethics in literature
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English literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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English fiction
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Summary note
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 form--of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion--with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian "intuitionist" philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre's formal properties. For most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period's least attractive and interesting qualities. But "Good Form" argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form--and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: "Moralised Fables"
What feels right: Ethics, intuition, and the experience of narrative
The subject of the Newgate novel: Crime, interest, what novels are about
Getting David Copperfield: Humor, sesus communis, and moral agreement
Back in time: The Bildungsroman and the source of moral agency
The large novel and the law numbers: Daniel Deronda and the counterintuitive
Afterword
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Index.
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Ethical experience of the Victorian novel
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9780691171708 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
069117170X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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2016931465
OCLC
951724648
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