Victorian WillOhio University Press, 1989 - 493 pages John R. Reed, author of Victorian Conventions, The Natural History of H.G. Wells, and Decadent Style, has published a new critical study examining nineteenth-century British attitudes toward free will, determinism, providence, and fate. His new book, Victorian Will, argues for the need to understand a body of literature in its broadest historical and intellectual context. From among a number of different possibilities, Reed chose the concept of will -- whether understood as part of a providential scheme, as an illusory power in a determined existence, or as a free agent in a world of chance -- to illuminate the relationship of literary works of the period. Will was not only a prominent subject of discussion in Victorian England, but attitudes towards will affect form, style, and characterization in contemporary fiction, as Reed demonstrates in his discussion of the works of Mary Shelley, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and others. Victorian Will is destined to take its place beside Reed's other work as a standard reference in nineteenth-century study. |
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... concept in nineteenth - century thought . We have seen that , as the self was increasingly viewed as progressive , time became a crucial implement for interpreting individual character . Man was not merely the plaything of humors ; he ...
... concept in nineteenth - century thought . We have seen that , as the self was increasingly viewed as progressive , time became a crucial implement for interpreting individual character . Man was not merely the plaything of humors ; he ...
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... concept of progress emerged as an explanatory adjunct . Analogies between nations and individuals became familiar and those between sea- sons and eras in history were revived . The battle of the ancients and the moderns gradually ...
... concept of progress emerged as an explanatory adjunct . Analogies between nations and individuals became familiar and those between sea- sons and eras in history were revived . The battle of the ancients and the moderns gradually ...
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... concept of prog- ress , there is abundant evidence that a large body of skeptical thought either rejected this concept altogether or seriously modified it . Similarly , though progress is generally associated with technological and ...
... concept of prog- ress , there is abundant evidence that a large body of skeptical thought either rejected this concept altogether or seriously modified it . Similarly , though progress is generally associated with technological and ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Part 1 | 5 |
The Self | 15 |
The Free Will Controversy | 29 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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achieve action argued Arnold asserted attitudes becomes believed Bleak House Bulwer Bulwer-Lytton Butler Carlyle causal chapter character Charles Kingsley Christian circumstance Coleridge Collins concept consciousness destiny determinism determinist Dickens divine Eliot Essays evil evolution existence faith fate fiction force Frankenstein freedom George George Eliot God's Godwin Hardy human Huxley idea imagination impulse individual insanity intellectual James Martineau John Kingsley Little Dorrit lives London man's mankind Martineau Mary Shelley Matthew Arnold Meredith Middlemarch Mill mind moral mystery narrative narrator nature necessarian necessity nineteenth century novel novelists Pater pattern Percy Shelley philosophical phrenology Pisistratus plot Poems progress providence providential purpose reader reason religious responsibility Robert Romantic says scheme sense shape social soul spirit story Subsequent references appear Tennyson Thackeray theory things Thomas Carlyle Thomas Hardy thought tion truth University Press Victorian vols W. K. Clifford William writers York