Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction - Form, Ethics, and the Novel

Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: What Is Stylistic Virtue?; 1. Stylistic Virtue and the Rise of Literary Formalism; 2. Stylistic Virtue between Moralism and Aestheticism; 3. Virtue Theory and the Nature of the Aesthetic; 4. Thackeray's Grace; 5. Trollope's Ease and Lucidity; 6. Meredith's Fervidness; Afterword: Stylistic Virtue and Literary Value; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Matthew Sussman is a lecturer in the Department of English at the The University of Sydney.

Summary

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Sussman
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781108965903
• ISBN: 978-1-108-96590-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 401 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Language: history & general works, Literary theory, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Language: history and general works