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- Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
- Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
- Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction What Is Stylistic Virtue?
- Chapter 1 Stylistic Virtue and the Rise of Literary Formalism
- Chapter 2 Stylistic Virtue between Moralism and Aestheticism
- Chapter 3 Virtue Theory and the Nature of the Aesthetic
- Chapter 4 Thackeray’s Grace
- Chapter 5 Trollope’s Ease and Lucidity
- Chapter 6 Meredith’s Fervidness
- Afterword Stylistic Virtue and Literary Value
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
Afterword - Stylistic Virtue and Literary Value
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
- Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
- Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
- Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction What Is Stylistic Virtue?
- Chapter 1 Stylistic Virtue and the Rise of Literary Formalism
- Chapter 2 Stylistic Virtue between Moralism and Aestheticism
- Chapter 3 Virtue Theory and the Nature of the Aesthetic
- Chapter 4 Thackeray’s Grace
- Chapter 5 Trollope’s Ease and Lucidity
- Chapter 6 Meredith’s Fervidness
- Afterword Stylistic Virtue and Literary Value
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
Summary
The conceptual framework that accompanies stylistic virtue was the product of over two thousand years of rhetorical, critical, and philosophical development, much of which appears to collapse in the first decades of the twentieth century. However, the Afterword suggests that stylistic virtue persisted in constituent and strategically obscured forms: for example, in T.S. Eliot’s analysis of stylistic “impersonality” and I.A. Richards’s conception of the poem as “pseudo-statement.” The Afterword goes on to claim that contemporary virtue theory provides a promising avenue for the continued defense of style, and of aesthetic value more generally, as an ethical good, offering an innovative way of defending the humanities at a moment of contemporary crisis.
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- Stylistic Virtue and Victorian FictionForm, Ethics, and the Novel, pp. 167 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021