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More than an order of words :The pursuit of a moral style in Victorian prose and writing of the First World War

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	More than an order of words :
Reminder of title:	The pursuit of a moral style in Victorian prose and writing of the First World War
Author:	Edwards, Hilary.
Description:	203 p.
Notes:	Co-Advisers: Franco Moretti; Robert Polhemus.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1363.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3128382
ISBN:	0496756443

More than an order of words :The pursuit of a moral style in Victorian prose and writing of the First World War
Edwards, Hilary.

More than an order of words :The pursuit of a moral style in Victorian prose and writing of the First World War [electronic resource] - 203 p.

Co-Advisers: Franco Moretti; Robert Polhemus.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

This dissertation examines the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British prose. Specifically, I offer a new conceptual history of the attempt to shape literary form and style in response to ethical problems. I argue that the ornate formal experiments of Thomas Carlyle and Walter Pater are most helpfully understood as part of the same conceptual trajectory as the writings of certain First World War soldiers who employ a distinctive documentary style in their letters, diaries, memoirs and novels. Both the Victorians and the soldiers developed new styles of writing in response to a modern theological crisis marked by the apparent absence of intentional order from the world. An evaluation of these stylistic responses, however, reveals a crucial difference in the weight being put on art in each case: where Carlyle and Pater want art to animate the world with meaning in the way that God once had, thereby undoing the theological crisis, the soldiers accept the moral consequences of the deletion of human agency from their descriptions of the war and use art instead to help them endure that loss. By approaching and re-evaluating the project of the Victorian prose stylists in light of the soldiers' writings, I am able to create a restrained but powerful new claim for the capacity of literary aesthetics to do quite ordinary and yet crucial ethical work in our everyday lives.

ISBN: 0496756443Subjects--Topical Terms:

180518
Literature, Modern.

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