Novel ethics: alterity and form in Jacob's Room.(Critical essay)

From: Twentieth Century Literature | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Though few critics would still claim that the modernist novel privileges experimental form over engagement with social and political concerns, most literary histories have not succeeded in articulating how modernist developments in the style and content of the English novel reflect a transformation of the relationship between literature and politics. If the Victorian realist novel seems to rely on an understanding of morality that values sympathetic identification and the possibility of common interests, what forms the basis of the ethical and political significance of the novel ...

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