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Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel
Jesse Rosenthal
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Description for Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 176 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
574g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691171708
SKU
V9780691171708
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About Jesse Rosenthal
Jesse Rosenthal is assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.
Reviews for Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel
This book is itself very good at illuminating matters half-known, pointing out things about the Victorian novel that the reader might already have been aware of, but rendering them newly interesting... In an exhilarating series of conceptual connections, the brilliant final chapter on George Eliot's Daniel Deronda moves from exploring the development of statistics, to the psychology of gambling, to ... Read more