0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy

Buy Now

Interfering Values in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and the Ethics of Criticism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,775
Discovery Miles 27 750
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

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 | Repayment Terms: R260 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

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.

General

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
Promotions
LSN: 0-313-32283-X
Barcode: 9780313322839

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book…
Christine Pierce, Donald VanDeVeer Paperback R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180
Media ethics in South African context…
Lucas M. Oosthuizen Paperback  (1)
R604 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640
Philosophy for Girls - An Invitation to…
Melissa Shew, Kimberly Garchar Hardcover R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960
Beyond Speech - Pornography and Analytic…
Mari Mikkola Hardcover R3,796 Discovery Miles 37 960
The Ethics of Captivity
Lori Gruen Hardcover R4,078 Discovery Miles 40 780
Distant Markets, Distant Harms…
Daniel Finn Hardcover R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850
Sympathy - A History
Eric Schliesser Hardcover R3,996 Discovery Miles 39 960
The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics…
David Boonin Hardcover R2,639 Discovery Miles 26 390
Our Faithfulness to the Past - The…
Sue Campbell Hardcover R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740
Entertaining Judgment - The Afterlife in…
Greg Garrett Hardcover R978 Discovery Miles 9 780
Murder in our Midst - Comparing Crime…
Romayne Smith Fullerton, Maggie Jones Patterson Hardcover R2,593 Discovery Miles 25 930
Shared Agency - A Planning Theory of…
Michael E. Bratman Hardcover R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740

See more

Partners