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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... pattern of his own destiny . His interference in Darrell's life may complicate , but not negate , the virtuous young man's des- tiny . Each of his acts is , however , another strand in his own noose . An early chapter depicting Jack's ...
... pattern of his own destiny . His interference in Darrell's life may complicate , but not negate , the virtuous young man's des- tiny . Each of his acts is , however , another strand in his own noose . An early chapter depicting Jack's ...
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... pattern , but it remains with the individual will to perceive that pattern as destiny or providence . 50 The larger scheme may be benign and not dismally deterministic . A sign that we are meant to take the more hopeful view is the ...
... pattern , but it remains with the individual will to perceive that pattern as destiny or providence . 50 The larger scheme may be benign and not dismally deterministic . A sign that we are meant to take the more hopeful view is the ...
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... pattern , a sense that genuine life is to be found only outside all pattern . " 56 In his youthful commonplace book , Trollope expressed opinions that re- mained essentially unchanged for the rest of his life . From the start , he was ...
... pattern , a sense that genuine life is to be found only outside all pattern . " 56 In his youthful commonplace book , Trollope expressed opinions that re- mained essentially unchanged for the rest of his life . From the start , he was ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Part 1 | 5 |
The Self | 15 |
The Free Will Controversy | 29 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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accept achieve action argued asserted assumed becomes believed called cause central century chapter character Christian circumstance concept concerned consciousness create described desire destiny determinism Dickens direct discussion divine Eliot Essays evolution examine example existence explains expression faith fate feel fiction follow force freedom future George God's Hardy human idea imagination important impulse individual insanity interest issue John later less lives London man's material matter means Meredith mind moral narrative narrator nature necessity never nineteenth century novel offered pattern philosophical plot Poems position present progress providence reader reason religious represents responsibility Romantic says scheme seems sense shape Shelley social soul spirit story Subsequent references appear suggests theory things thought tion true truth University Press Victorian writers York