Reading ideas in Victorian literature : literary content as artistic experience /

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Fessenbecker, Patrick (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2020]
Cyfres:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv136c554
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Intro
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: In Defence of Paraphrase
  • 1. Content and Form
  • 2. Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception and Ethical Confusion
  • 3. Justifying Anachronism
  • 4. The Scourge of the Unwilling: George Eliot on the Sources of Normativity
  • 5. Everyday Aesthetics and the Experience of the Profound
  • 6. Robert Browning, Augusta Webster and the Role of Morality
  • Epilogue: Between Immersion and Critique
  • Thoughtful Reading
  • Index