Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel
- Hardcover
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 259pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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.(Publisher).
Details
Title
Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel
Author
Sussman, Matthew
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Date
2021
Edition
First Edition