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Interfering Values in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and the Ethics of Criticism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,775
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Interfering Values in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and the Ethics of Criticism...

Interfering Values in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and the Ethics of Criticism (Hardcover)

Jeffrey Moxham

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Classic 19th-century British novels that give full expression to complex ethical problems necessarily project the claims of conflicting or interfering values and thus complicate the strategies for resolving the dilemmas they dramatize. This book reasserts the importance of the ethics of reading. It analyzes a developing dialogue between moral philosophers and literary critics, all of whom in their different ways celebrate literature's capacity to confront us with values in conflict. They agree that a key reason for rereading and arguing about classic novels is that they often hypothesize moral dilemmas in more realistically particularized detail than any abstract, rational discussion of ethics could match. But even if novels provide specifically situated explorations of moral issues, this does not mean that they can resolve the problems they dramatize.

This book considers interfering values in novels by Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy and the difficulties in interpreting these works. Each novel has caused protracted disputes among critics because of its heroine and its conflicting values. Different readings of these novels reveal how critics engage in interpretive strategies to defend or deplore what they read. But while they try to articulate and limit the reader's responses, the novels break through the frames they would impose, thus enlarging our awareness of the problems of making judgments.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2002
First published: December 2002
Authors: Jeffrey Moxham
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32283-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-313-32283-X
Barcode: 9780313322839

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