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Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster [electronic resource] / Valerie Wainwright.

By: Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007Description: 216 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Ethics in literature | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.809384 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-208) and index.

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.

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