Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Henry James (including George Meredith, W.M. Thackeray, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy)Academica Press, 2008 - 393 עמודים This original research monograph discusses key English novelists of the 19th and 20th centuries and their efforts to grapple with the questions of ethos and behaviour in their novels and other writings. Authors discussed include Austen, Meredith, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy, and Henry James. |
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Section One Jane Austen and the Order of Things | 31 |
Section Two The Comic Spirit and the Tragic Muse | 159 |
Section Three Henry James and the Question of Moral Sense | 279 |
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