Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature : : Literary Content as Artistic Experience / / Patrick Fessenbecker.

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary contentAppeals to those interested in philosophy and literature, especially the philosophy of literatureBrings together thinkers from the analytic and continental traditions in aestheticsContains an upd...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: In Defence of Paraphrase
  • 1. Content and Form
  • 2. Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception and Ethical Confusion
  • 3. Justifying Anachronism
  • 4. The Scourge of the Unwilling: George Eliot on the Sources of Normativity
  • 5. Everyday Aesthetics and the Experience of the Profound
  • 6. Robert Browning, Augusta Webster and the Role of Morality
  • Epilogue: Between Immersion and Critique – Thoughtful Reading
  • Index