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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction - Form, Ethics, and the Novel (Hardcover)
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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction - Form, Ethics, and the Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these
questions by recovering the concept of 'stylistic virtue,' once
foundational to rhetoric and aesthetics but largely forgotten
today. Stylistic virtues like 'ease' and 'grace' are distinguishing
properties that help realize a text's essential character. First
described by Aristotle, they were integral to the development of
formalist methods and modern literary criticism. The first half of
the book excavates the theory of stylistic virtue during its period
of greatest ascendance, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, when belletristic rhetoric shaped how the art of
literary style and 'the aesthetic' were understood. The second half
offers new readings of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith to show
how stylistic virtue changes our understanding of style in the
novel and challenges conventional approaches to interpreting the
ethics of art.
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