Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster /
Wainwright, Valerie,1951-
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-208) and index.
Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.
Ethics in literature.
English fiction
English fiction