{"product_id":"good-form-9780691196640","title":"Good Form","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGood Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel \u003c\/i\u003eis a major contribution to the study of ethics in realist fiction. Grounded in a masterful command of philosophy and literary theory, and argued through careful readings of Victorian novels, it sheds considerable light on a central topic in fiction studies. It will be vigorously discussed and greatly valued in Victorian studies and narrative studies generally.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Kucich, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is itself very good at illuminating matters half-known, pointing out things about the Victorian novel that the reader might already have been aware of, but rendering them newly interesting. . . . In an exhilarating series of conceptual connections, the brilliant final chapter on George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e moves from exploring the development of statistics, to the psychology of gambling, to new close readings of Eliot’s narrative complications. . . .\"\u003cb\u003e---Kirsty Martin, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At once familiar and original, brilliant and intuitive, \u003ci\u003eGood Form\u003c\/i\u003e . . . will inform studies of narrative well beyond the temporal boundaries of the Victorian period.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jonathan Farina, \u003ci\u003eWordsworth Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This thoughtful study adds an interesting set of coordinates by which to map Victorian novels as a genre. It recovers a branch of Victorian moral philosophy that has languished under the critique (or neglect) of modernism and post-structuralism and supplies a methodology for examining with fresh theoretical sophistication the very 'readerliness' of those texts that fall on the wrong side of Roland Barthes's 'writerly\/readerly' dichotomy. Such reconsideration is over-due, and Rosenthal presents it with admirable erudition.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sarah Gates, \u003ci\u003eDickens Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each of the body chapters is rich with rewards of its own. . . . If scholarship consists, as Rosenthal proposes, of an ongoing temporally extended conversation with ‘ourselves,' I was left with no doubt that Rosenthal was one of the selves with whom I would want to speak.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Plotz, \u003ci\u003eNineteenth Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jesse Rosenthal's \u003ci\u003eGood Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel\u003c\/i\u003e provides a meticulously researched and original approach to both Victorian literature and novel theory, all the more impressive given that this is the author’s first book. . . . A compelling work of scholarship, one that is sure to be of use to scholars of Victorian literature and culture and novel theory alike.\"\u003cb\u003e---Isabella Cooper, \u003ci\u003eStudies in the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rosenthal enlivens our sense of the possibilities and powers of narrative by arguing that the temporal unfolding of a novel is a moral, philosophical, and ethical matter.\"\u003cb\u003e---Katherine Voyles, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant. . . . [\u003ci\u003eGood Form\u003c\/i\u003e] is a formidably inventive, urbane, and compelling work of scholarship that marshals historical and philosophical insight alongside deft close analysis to reimagine key tenets of novel theory.\"\u003cb\u003e---Daniel Williams, \u003ci\u003eMLN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to the study of ethics in realist fiction. Grounded in a masterful command of philosophy and literary theory, and argued through careful readings of Victorian novels, [\u003ci\u003eGood Form\u003c\/i\u003e] sheds considerable light on a central topic in fiction studies. It will be vigorously discussed and greatly valued in Victorian studies and narrative studies generally.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Kucich, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A most inspiring and insightful book where he brings up the interconnectedness between moral intuition and the form of the novel—the nineteenth century Victorian novel, to be more specific; but with implications for contemporary literature as well.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, \u003ci\u003eEthical Theory and Moral Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403881292119,"sku":"9780691196640","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691196640.jpg?v=1730484786","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/good-form-9780691196640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}