{"product_id":"good-form-the-ethical-experience-of-the-victorian-novel-paperback","title":"Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion \"feels right\"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? \u003ci\u003eGood Form\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form--of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion--with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian \"intuitionist\" philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre's formal properties. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period's least attractive and interesting qualities. But \u003ci\u003eGood Form\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form--and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels. Bringing together ideas from philosophy, literary history, and narrative theory, Rosenthal shows that we cannot understand the formal principles of the novel that we have inherited from the nineteenth century without also understanding the moral principles that have come with them. \u003ci\u003eGood Form\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to understand the way Victorians read, but it also helps us to understand the way we read now.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is one of the best books I've read in a long while--and one of the very best first books I've ever read. Ambitious, highly original, and with wide-ranging implications, it offers persuasive new claims about reading, form, and historicism that are of great interest across literary studies. I expect it to take its place among recent major rethinkings of the nineteenth-century novel.\"\u003cb\u003e--Caroline Levine, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesse Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776143229216,"sku":"9780691196640","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a4c7c75ffffbdb369a808b744fbeefbf.webp?v=1780473256","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/good-form-the-ethical-experience-of-the-victorian-novel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}