The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century / / William J. Scheick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Scheick, William J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 Beautiful Circuit and Subterfuge --; 2 The School of a Great Master --; 3 Eventuary Romance --; 4 Aesthetic Romance --; 5 Ethical Romance --; 6 The Ethos of Storytelling --; 7 The Art of Life --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292771802; 9783110745351
• DOI: 10.7560/776739
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William J. Scheick.

The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but since then it has often been dismissed as juvenile, unmodern, improper, or subversive. In this study, William J. Scheick seeks to recover the place of romance in fin-de-siècle England and America; to distinguish among its subgenres of eventuary, aesthetic, and ethical romance; and to reinstate ethical romance as a major mode of artistic expression. The authors whose works Scheick discusses are Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. Rider Haggard, Henry James, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, H. G. Wells, John Kendrick Bangs, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane, Mary Austin, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Cholmondeley, and Rudyard Kipling. This wide selection expands the canon to include writers and works that highly merit re-reading by a new generation.