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Interfering values in the nineteenth-century British novel : Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and the ethics of criticism / Jeffrey Moxham.
Van Pelt Library PR868.E67 M69 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moxham, Jeffrey, 1948-
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of world literature 0738-9345 ; no. 117.
- Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 117
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Ethics in literature.
- Didactic fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Didactic fiction, English.
- Criticism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Criticism.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Ethics.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Ethics.
- Eliot, George.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Ethics.
- Hardy, Thomas.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Ethics.
- Austen, Jane.
- Social values in literature.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Considers the ethical conflicts posed in novels by Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy and explores the interpretive difficulties confronting their critics.
- Contents:
- 1. Reading Philosophically 11
- 2. Ethical Criticism 29
- 3. Fractured Works / Edgy Readings 47
- 4. Mansfield Park 59
- 5. Bleak House 101
- 6. Middlemarch 143
- 7. Tess of the D'Urbervilles 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 031332283X
- OCLC:
- 49617462
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