Rachel Hollander

Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction

Novel Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Visiting 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781138107922
• ISBN-10: 1138107921
• Artikelnr.: 57041069

Autorenporträt

Rachel Hollander is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "The ardent eighties:" Hospitality and realism at the end of the century
2. George Eliot leaves home 3. "This house from this moment is yours and
not mine:" Unconditional hospitality in The Woodlanders 4. Unhomely ethics
and radical intimacy in The Story of an African Farm 5. Homeless modernity
in Jacob's Room Afterword: Hospitality of the "post-"