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Authorship, Ethics, and the Reader: Blake, Dickens, Joyce

By Dominic Rainsford

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1997
ISBN
0333669711, 9780333669716
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15777480 bytes)
Pages
264\265
Time added
2015-08-09 21:48:33

Description

Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors' ethical status. Its argument develops through readings of Blake, Dickens, and Joyce, three authors who find especially vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, at the same time as they expose wider social ills. The book combines its interest in ethics with post-structuralist scepticism, and thus develops a type of radical humanism with applications far beyond the three authors immediately discussed.

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