Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Ethics and the turn to narrative
- 2 Victorian history and ethics: anxiety about agency at the fin-de-siècle
- 3 Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman writers
- 4 When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess
- 5 Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics
- 6 Promises, lies, and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Ethics and the turn to narrative
- 2 Victorian history and ethics: anxiety about agency at the fin-de-siècle
- 3 Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman writers
- 4 When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess
- 5 Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics
- 6 Promises, lies, and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Ethics and Narrative in the English Novel, 1880–1914 , pp. 141 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001