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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2020]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv136c554 |
Table of Contents:
- 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