The novel and the problem of new life / Aaron Matz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matz, Aaron, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

European fiction.

Childbirth in literature.

Children in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The novel since the nineteenth century has displayed a thorny ambivalence toward the question of having children. In its representation of human vitality it can seem to promote the giving of life, but again and again it betrays a nagging doubt about the moral implications of procreation. The Novel and the Problem of New Life identifies this tension as a defining quality of the modern British and European novel. Beginning with the procreative-skeptical writings of Flaubert, Butler, and Hardy, then turning to the high modernist work of Lawrence, Woolf, and Huxley, and culminating in the postwar fiction of Lessing and others, this book chronicles the history of the novel as it came to accommodate greater misgivings about the morality of reproduction. This is the first study to examine in literature a problem that has long troubled philosophers, environmental thinkers, and so many people in everyday life.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Order and Origin

Chapter 2 Revenge of the Unborn

Chapter 3 Hardy and the Vanity of Procreation

Chapter 4 Lawrence's Storm of Fecundity

Chapter 5 The Children of Others in Woolf

Chapter 6 Reproduction and Dystopia

Chapter 7 Lessing on Generations and Freedom

Chapter 8 Procreating on Patmos

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-99609-4

1-108-99600-0

1-108-98971-3

OCLC:

1258782325