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Ethics, Theory and the Novel

Hardback

Main Details

Title Ethics, Theory and the Novel
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Parker
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 158
Category/GenreLiterary theory
ISBN/Barcode 9780521452830
ClassificationsDewey:809
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 October 1994
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The virtual suppression of ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment tradition over others vital to a full account of humanity and literary value. In Ethics, Theory and the Novel David Parker shows that current silences about ethics are as damaging as the earlier political silences of Leavisism and New Criticism. He goes on to examine Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, and novels by D.H. Lawrence, exploring the consequences for major literary works of the suppression of ethical traditions.

Reviews

"Parker's discussion is intelligent and well-informed." Philosophy and Literature "Ethics, Theory and the Novel is, then, both timely and accomplished; and a measure of its accomplishment is that it brings to this interdisciplinary 'turn' a subtlety of literary analysis that would have pleased even exponents of earlier, more intellectually insular, forms of humanist literary criticism." Philosophy and literature