Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature Literary Content as Artistic Experience 1st Edition by Patrick Fessenbecker ISBN 1474460607 9781474460606

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ISBN 10: 1474460607

ISBN 13: 9781474460606 

Author: Patrick Fessenbecker

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

It is natural to assume that if works of literature are artistically valuable, it’s not because of anything they say but because of what they are: beautiful. Works of art try to say nothing, to use their content only as matter for realizing the beauty of complex form.　 But what if appreciating the things a work of literature has to say is a way of appreciating it as a work of art? Often dismissed as too lengthy, messy, and preachy to qualify as genuine art, in fact Victorian narrative challenges our conceptions about what makes art worth engaging.

Table of contents:

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: In Defence of Paraphrase

1. Content and Form

2. Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Ethical Confusion

3. Justifying Anachronism

4. The Scourge of the Unwilling: George Eliot on the Sources of Normativity

5. Everyday Aesthetics and the Experience of the Profound

6. Robert Browning, Augusta Webster, and the Role of Morality

Epilogue: Between Immersion and Critique: Thoughtful ReadingIndex.

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