Matthew Sussman

Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction

Form, Ethics, and the Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108965903
• ISBN-10: 1108965903
• Artikelnr.: 70522754

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sussman is a lecturer in the Department of English at the The University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: What Is Stylistic Virtue?
1. Stylistic Virtue and the Rise of Literary Formalism
2. Stylistic Virtue between Moralism and Aestheticism
3. Virtue Theory and the Nature of the Aesthetic
4. Thackeray's Grace
5. Trollope's Ease and Lucidity
6. Meredith's Fervidness
Afterword: Stylistic Virtue and Literary Value
Bibliography
Index.