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Narrative Skepticism: Moral Agency and Representations of Consciousness in Fiction
By Linda S. Raphael
238 pages
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- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Skepticism in Literature
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch
James, Henry, 1843-1916. Wings of the Dove
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- Remains of the Day
Conduct of Life in Literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Didactic Fiction, English--History and Criticism
Consciousness in Literature
Synopsis
Using narrative, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theory, Linda S. Raphael investigates the development of skepticism in narrative. She argues that as authors explore more deeply the inner life of characters, their narratives become more skeptical about pinning down what it means to lead a good life. This argument is buttressed through a close examination of Jane Austen's Persuasion, George Eliot's Middle-march, Henry James's The Wings of the Dove, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Kazuo Ishiguro's ...
Using narrative, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theory, Linda S. Raphael investigates the development of skepticism in narrative. She argues that as authors explore more deeply the inner life of characters, their narratives become more skeptical about pinning down what it means to lead a good life. This argument is buttressed through a close examination of Jane Austen's Persuasion, George Eliot's Middle-march, Henry James's The Wings of the Dove, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.
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Table of contents
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- Narrative Skepticism 1
- Narrative Skepticism - Moral Agency and Representations of Consciousness in Fiction 3
- Contents 5
- Acknowledgements 7
- Introduction 13
- 1: Persuasion: a Conflict of Passion and Reason 26
- 2: Middlemarch: Skepticism and Narrative Voice 58
- 3: Levels and Ways of Knowing in the Wings of the Dove 89
- 4: Ordinary and Extraordinary in Mrs. Dalloway 126
- 5: The Remains of the Day: Skepticism in a First-Person Narrative 168
- Conclusion 200
- Notes 204
- Bibliography 222
- Index 233