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Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction - Novel Ethics (Paperback)
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Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction - Novel Ethics (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late
Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book
reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical
orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the
intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist
English novel produce a new ethics of hospitality. Hollander reads
texts that both portray and enact a unique ethical orientation of
welcoming the other, a narrative hospitality that combines the
Victorians' commitment to engaging with the real world with a more
modern awareness of difference and the limits of knowledge. While
classic nineteenth-century realism rests on a sympathy-based model
of moral relations, novels by authors such as George Eliot, Thomas
Hardy, and Olive Schreiner present instead an ethical recognition
of the distance between self and other. Opening themselves to the
other in their very structure and narrative form, the visited texts
both represent and theorize the ethics of hospitality, anticipating
twentieth-century philosophy's recognition of the limits of
sympathy. As colonial conflicts, nationalist anxiety, and the
intensification of the "woman question" became dominant cultural
concerns in the 1870s and 80s, the problem of self and other, known
and unknown, began to saturate and define the representation of
home in the English novel. This book argues that in the wake of an
erosion of confidence in the ability to understand that which is
unlike the self, a moral code founded on sympathy gave way to an
ethics of hospitality, in which the concept of home shifts to
acknowledge the permeability and vulnerability of not only domestic
but also national spaces. Concluding with Virginia Woolf's
reexamination of the novel's potential to educate the reader in
negotiating relations of alterity in a more fully modernist moment,
Hollanders suggest that the late Victorian novel embodies a unique
and previously unrecognized ethical mode between Victorian realism
and a post-World- War-I ethics of modernist form.
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