Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors' ethical status. Its argument develops through readings of Blake, Dickens, and Joyce, three authors who find especially vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, at the same time as they expo
Authorship, Ethics and the Reader: Blake, Dickens, Joyce
β Scribed by Dominic Rainsford (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 259
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Melancholia and the Search for a System....Pages 13-47
Images of Authorship/Experiments with Ethics....Pages 48-75
The Analyst and Agent of Wrongs....Pages 76-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Innocence and Experience, Again....Pages 99-126
From Wish-Fulfilment to Ascetic Flatness....Pages 127-156
Unsolved Problems and Deviant Narrators....Pages 157-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
The Ineluctable Modality of the Ethical....Pages 177-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Meeting the Author/Facing the Book....Pages 211-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-250
β¦ Subjects
Nineteenth-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Fiction; Literary Theory; Poetry and Poetics
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