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100 1 $aRosenthal, Jesse,$eauthor.
245 10 $aGood form :$bthe ethical experience of the Victorian novel /$cJesse Rosenthal.
246 30 $aEthical experience of the Victorian novel
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2017]
264 4 $c©2017
300 $axii, 256 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.
520 8 $aWhat 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 form--of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion--with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian "intuitionist" philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre's formal properties. For most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period's least attractive and interesting qualities. But "Good Form" argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form--and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "Moralised Fables" -- What feels right: Ethics, intuition, and the experience of narrative -- The subject of the Newgate novel: Crime, interest, what novels are about -- Getting David Copperfield: Humor, sesus communis, and moral agreement -- Back in time: The Bildungsroman and the source of moral agency -- The large novel and the law numbers: Daniel Deronda and the counterintuitive -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aEthics in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 7 $aEnglish fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00910817
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650 7 $aEthics in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00915860
648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bglx$hPR878.E67$iR67 2017