000909468 000__ 03632cam\a2200421\a\4500 000909468 001__ 909468 000909468 005__ 20210515182835.0 000909468 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000909468 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000909468 008__ 120620s2013\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000909468 010__ $$z 2012023918 000909468 020__ $$z9780415628242 000909468 020__ $$z9780203078693 $$q(electronic book) 000909468 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC1114680 000909468 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL1114680 000909468 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10650236 000909468 035__ $$a(CaONFJC)MIL428574 000909468 035__ $$a(OCoLC)827208937 000909468 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000909468 043__ $$ae-uk--- 000909468 050_4 $$aPR878.E67$$bH65 2013 000909468 08204 $$a823/.809$$223 000909468 1001_ $$aHollander, Rachel,$$d1969- 000909468 24510 $$aNarrative hospitality in late Victorian fiction$$h[electronic resource] :$$bnovel ethics /$$cRachel Hollander. 000909468 260__ $$aNew York :$$bRoutledge,$$c2013. 000909468 300__ $$axi, 217 p. 000909468 440_0 $$aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$$v8 000909468 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000909468 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000909468 520__ $$a"Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist English novel produce a new ethics of hospitality. Hollander reads texts that both portray and enact a unique ethical orientation of welcoming the other, a narrative hospitality that combines the Victorians' commitment to engaging with the real world with a more modern awareness of difference and the limits of knowledge. While classic nineteenth-century realism rests on a sympathy-based model of moral relations, novels by authors such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner present instead an ethical recognition of the distance between self and other. Opening themselves to the other in their very structure and narrative form, the visited texts both represent and theorize the ethics of hospitality, anticipating twentieth-century philosophy's recognition of the limits of sympathy. As colonial conflicts, nationalist anxiety, and the intensification of the "woman question" became dominant cultural concerns in the 1870s and 80s, the problem of self and other, known and unknown, began to saturate and define the representation of home in the English novel. This book argues that in the wake of an erosion of confidence in the ability to understand that which is unlike the self, a moral code founded on sympathy gave way to an ethics of hospitality, in which the concept of home shifts to acknowledge the permeability and vulnerability of not only domestic but also national spaces. Concluding with Virginia Woolf's reexamination of the novel's potential to educate the reader in negotiating relations of alterity in a more fully modernist moment, Hollander suggest that the late Victorian novel embodies a unique and previously unrecognized ethical mode between Victorian realism and a post-World- War-I ethics of modernist form. "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000909468 650_0 $$aEnglish fiction$$y19th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000909468 650_0 $$aEthics in literature. 000909468 650_0 $$aHospitality in literature. 000909468 650_0 $$aLiterature and society$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000909468 650_0 $$aPoststructuralism. 000909468 852__ $$bebk 000909468 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1114680$$zOnline Access 000909468 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:909468$$pGLOBAL_SET 000909468 980__ $$aEBOOK 000909468 980__ $$aBIB 000909468 982__ $$aEbook 000909468 983__ $$aOnline