Max Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579761
- eISBN:
- 9780191722882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579761.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This is the first of four chapters exploring the turn‐of‐the‐century disturbances in the relation between life‐writing and fiction. It argues that ‘autobiography’ begins to seem a problematic ...
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This is the first of four chapters exploring the turn‐of‐the‐century disturbances in the relation between life‐writing and fiction. It argues that ‘autobiography’ begins to seem a problematic category in the period, and gets displaced towards fiction. The chapter focuses on ‘Mark Rutherford’, not just for his autobiography, but for his later inclusion of the story ‘A Mysterious Portrait’. The concept of the heteronym is introduced, to be developed in Chapters 7 and Chapter 8. Other authors discussed here include George Gissing (The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft), H. G. Wells (Boon), Henry Adams, Samuel Butler (The Way of All Flesh), and Edmund Gosse (Father and Son). The various displacements of auto/biography are shown to complicate Lejeune's concept of the autobiographic contract guaranteeing the identity of author, narrator, and subject.Less
This is the first of four chapters exploring the turn‐of‐the‐century disturbances in the relation between life‐writing and fiction. It argues that ‘autobiography’ begins to seem a problematic category in the period, and gets displaced towards fiction. The chapter focuses on ‘Mark Rutherford’, not just for his autobiography, but for his later inclusion of the story ‘A Mysterious Portrait’. The concept of the heteronym is introduced, to be developed in Chapters 7 and Chapter 8. Other authors discussed here include George Gissing (The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft), H. G. Wells (Boon), Henry Adams, Samuel Butler (The Way of All Flesh), and Edmund Gosse (Father and Son). The various displacements of auto/biography are shown to complicate Lejeune's concept of the autobiographic contract guaranteeing the identity of author, narrator, and subject.
J. B. Schneewind
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199563012
- eISBN:
- 9780191721731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563012.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Intuitionism and utililtarianism were the two dominant moral philosophies in the Victorian period. Victorian fiction frequently dealt with serious moral issues and presented fairly specific moral ...
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Intuitionism and utililtarianism were the two dominant moral philosophies in the Victorian period. Victorian fiction frequently dealt with serious moral issues and presented fairly specific moral outlooks. But Victorian fiction and Victorian moral philosophy have not been used by critics or historians to illuminate one another. This chapter shows how some novels — by George Eliot, Mrs. Gaskell, and William Hale White, for example — embody a moral outlook close to that articulated by intuitionism. Our understanding of both philosophy and fiction is enhanced by seeing the similarities.Less
Intuitionism and utililtarianism were the two dominant moral philosophies in the Victorian period. Victorian fiction frequently dealt with serious moral issues and presented fairly specific moral outlooks. But Victorian fiction and Victorian moral philosophy have not been used by critics or historians to illuminate one another. This chapter shows how some novels — by George Eliot, Mrs. Gaskell, and William Hale White, for example — embody a moral outlook close to that articulated by intuitionism. Our understanding of both philosophy and fiction is enhanced by seeing the similarities.
Michael R. Watts
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198229698
- eISBN:
- 9780191744754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229698.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the influence of the Romantic movement on the Dissenters in the mid-nineteenth century. It describes William Hale White, who became one of many Dissenters whose religious ...
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This chapter discusses the influence of the Romantic movement on the Dissenters in the mid-nineteenth century. It describes William Hale White, who became one of many Dissenters whose religious orthodoxy was challenged, and in some cases overturned, by contact with the Romantic movement. Although they did not reject the concept of God, the Romantics depicted God in a very different way from orthodox theologians. They saw the evidence for God's handiwork not in the perfect working of pre-ordained laws, but in the continuous development of nature and of human history.Less
This chapter discusses the influence of the Romantic movement on the Dissenters in the mid-nineteenth century. It describes William Hale White, who became one of many Dissenters whose religious orthodoxy was challenged, and in some cases overturned, by contact with the Romantic movement. Although they did not reject the concept of God, the Romantics depicted God in a very different way from orthodox theologians. They saw the evidence for God's handiwork not in the perfect working of pre-ordained laws, but in the continuous development of nature and of human history.
