Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

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ID8090399
AuthorsValerie Wainwright (0000-0002-0517-3811, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-05-13
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEthics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315580371
OpenAlexW633041027
Open LibraryOL39533295M
ISBN9781315580371
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles of life that are worthy and fulfilling, admirable and rewarding. Presenting new research into the ethical debates in which these authors participated, this rigorous and energetic work reveals the ways in which ideas of major theorists such as Kant, F. H. Bradley, or John Stuart Mill, as well as those of now little-known writers such as the priest Edward Tagart, the preacher William Maccall, and philanthropist Helen Dendy Bosanquet, were appropriated and reappraised. Further, Wainwright seeks also to place these novelists within the wider context of modernity and proposes that their responses can be linked to the on-going and animated discussions that characterize modern moral philosophy

Art · Sociology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · 19th century · Engelsk litteratur · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Ethics in literature · Etik i litteraturen · European · Historia · History and criticism · Literary Criticism · Morale dans la littérature · Roman anglais

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