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

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Product Code: 9781108965903
ISBN13: 9781108965903
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$33.50
What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of 'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aesthetics but largely forgotten today. Stylistic virtues like 'ease' and 'grace' are distinguishing properties that help realize a text's essential character. First described by Aristotle, they were integral to the development of formalist methods and modern literary criticism. The first half of the book excavates the theory of stylistic virtue during its period of greatest ascendance, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when belletristic rhetoric shaped how the art of literary style and 'the aesthetic' were understood. The second half offers new readings of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith to show how stylistic virtue changes our understanding of style in the novel and challenges conventional approaches to interpreting the ethics of art.


Author: Matthew Sussman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Jul 25, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1108965903
ISBN-13: 9781108965903

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

$33.50
 
What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of 'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aesthetics but largely forgotten today. Stylistic virtues like 'ease' and 'grace' are distinguishing properties that help realize a text's essential character. First described by Aristotle, they were integral to the development of formalist methods and modern literary criticism. The first half of the book excavates the theory of stylistic virtue during its period of greatest ascendance, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when belletristic rhetoric shaped how the art of literary style and 'the aesthetic' were understood. The second half offers new readings of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith to show how stylistic virtue changes our understanding of style in the novel and challenges conventional approaches to interpreting the ethics of art.


Author: Matthew Sussman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Jul 25, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1108965903
ISBN-13: 9781108965903
 

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