Spirit Becomes Matter : The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche /
Staten, Henry
Spirit Becomes Matter : The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche / Henry Staten. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontës and George EliotThis book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Brontës and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology. This was one no longer bound by the idealizing presuppositions of traditional Christian moral ideology, and, as Henry Staten argues, is closely related to Nietzsche's physiological theory of will to power (itself directly influenced by Herbert Spencer). On this reading, Staten suggests, the Brontës and George Eliot participate, with Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, in the beginnings of the modernist turn toward a strictly naturalistic moral psychology, one that is 'non-moral' or 'post-moral'.M/p›
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748694587 9780748694594
10.1515/9780748694594 doi
English fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
English fiction, 19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
823/.809
Spirit Becomes Matter : The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche / Henry Staten. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontës and George EliotThis book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Brontës and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology. This was one no longer bound by the idealizing presuppositions of traditional Christian moral ideology, and, as Henry Staten argues, is closely related to Nietzsche's physiological theory of will to power (itself directly influenced by Herbert Spencer). On this reading, Staten suggests, the Brontës and George Eliot participate, with Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, in the beginnings of the modernist turn toward a strictly naturalistic moral psychology, one that is 'non-moral' or 'post-moral'.M/p›
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748694587 9780748694594
10.1515/9780748694594 doi
English fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
English fiction, 19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
823/.809