Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James / Patricia McKee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 369Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1986Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (366 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780691611167
  • 9781400854158
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.009/353 22
LOC classification:
  • PR830.C634 M35 1986
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. An Introduction of Critical Issues -- Chapter Two. Corresponding Freedoms: Language and the Self in Pamela -- Chapter Three. Richardson's Clarissa: Authority in Excess -- Chapter Four. Power as Partiality in Middlemarch -- Chapter Five. George Eliot's Redemption of Meaning: Daniel Deronda -- Chapter Six. The Gift of Acceptance: The Golden Bowl -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson, Eliot, and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human self, human relations, and literature as primary sources of meaningfulness. The relationships these novels portray as most satisfying are unsettled and unsettling, interfering with rather than contributing to social stability.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400854158

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. An Introduction of Critical Issues -- Chapter Two. Corresponding Freedoms: Language and the Self in Pamela -- Chapter Three. Richardson's Clarissa: Authority in Excess -- Chapter Four. Power as Partiality in Middlemarch -- Chapter Five. George Eliot's Redemption of Meaning: Daniel Deronda -- Chapter Six. The Gift of Acceptance: The Golden Bowl -- Afterword -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson, Eliot, and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human self, human relations, and literature as primary sources of meaningfulness. The relationships these novels portray as most satisfying are unsettled and unsettling, interfering with rather than contributing to social stability.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)