Good Form : : The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel / / Jesse Rosenthal.
What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Moralised Fables”
- Chapter 1: What Feels Right: Ethics, Intuition, and the Experience of Narrative
- Chapter 2: The Subject of the Newgate Novel: Crime, Interest, What Novels Are About
- Chapter 3: Getting David Copperfield: Humor, Sensus Communis, and Moral Agreement
- Chapter 4: Back in Time: The Bildungsroman and the Source of Moral Agency
- Chapter 5: The Large Novel and the Law of Large Numbers: Daniel Deronda and the Counterintuitive
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index