Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience
Patrick Fessenbecker, "Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience "
English | ISBN: 1474460607 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 1482 KB
English | ISBN: 1474460607 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 1482 KB
Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content
Appeals to those interested in philosophy and literature, especially the philosophy of literature
Brings together thinkers from the analytic and continental traditions in aesthetics
Contains an updated and expanded version of the award-winning essay ‘In Defence of Paraphrase’
Makes a case for why Victorian literature and Victorian moral thought are worthy of attention
Offers new readings of George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Augusta Webster
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