Title: Genre and ethics
First published: 2002
Description: "This book combines a literary critical version of genre with a pedagogical conception of ethics. It is comprised of eight chapters covering literature from the Renaissance to the present with an emphasis on the Restoration and the eighteenth century.".

"The study addresses the following kinds of questions: Why does genre need ethics? Why does ethics need genre? How is ethics related to and distinguished from ideology as currently used in cultural studies? How does a generic ethical method come to terms with history and historical change? How is a generic ethical method related to religion? Does genre reinforce the concept of the ethical agent?

This book will therefore have a broad audience, including scholars whose fields range from the Renaissance to the present, theorists and philosophers whose interests include ethics, cultural studies, and ideologies, and educationists pursuing methods for graduates and undergraduates. The autobiographical introduction serves as the "hook," as our creative writers say, for this audience. Generically, it is experimental, being at once scholarly, pedagogical, and autobiographical."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Didactic literature, English, English Didactic literature, English literature, Ethics in literature, History, History and criticism, Literary form, Ethik, Geschichte 1700-1800, Literaturgattung, Lehrdichtung, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Didactic literature, history and criticism
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR441 .T66 2002