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050	0	0	_aPR878.S78 _bS87 2021
100	1		_aSussman, Matthew, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aStylistic virtue and Victorian fiction : _bform, ethics, and the novel / _cMatthew Sussman.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v130
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).
505	0		_aIntroduction: What is the stylistic virtue? -- Stylistic virtue and the rise of literary formalism -- Stylistic virtue between moralism and aestheticism -- Virtue theory and the nature of the aesthetic -- Thackeray's grace -- Trollope's ease and lucidity -- Meredith's fervidness -- Afterword: Stylistic virtue and literary value.
520			_aWhat is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aesthetics but largely forgotten today. Stylistic virtues like'ease' and'grace' are distinguishing properties that help realize a text's essential character. First described by Aristotle, they were integral to the development of formalist methods and modern literary criticism. The first half of the book excavates the theory of stylistic virtue during its period of greatest ascendance, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when belletristic rhetoric shaped how the art of literary style and'the aesthetic' were understood. The second half offers new readings of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith to show how stylistic virtue changes our understanding of style in the novel and challenges conventional approaches to interpreting the ethics of art.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xRhetoric. _959645
650		0	_aEnglish language _xStyle.
651		0	_aEngland _xIntellectual life _y19th century.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108832946
830		0	_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v130.
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