TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sussman,Matthew
TI  - Stylistic virtue and Victorian fiction: form, ethics, and the novel 
T2  - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
SN  - 9781108966436 (ebook)
AV  - PR878.S78 S87 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Style
KW  - England
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021); Introduction: What is the stylistic virtue? -- Stylistic virtue and the rise of literary formalism -- Stylistic virtue between moralism and aestheticism -- Virtue theory and the nature of the aesthetic -- Thackeray's grace -- Trollope's ease and lucidity -- Meredith's fervidness -- Afterword: Stylistic virtue and literary value
N2  - What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aesthetics but largely forgotten today. Stylistic virtues like'ease' and'grace' are distinguishing properties that help realize a text's essential character. First described by Aristotle, they were integral to the development of formalist methods and modern literary criticism. The first half of the book excavates the theory of stylistic virtue during its period of greatest ascendance, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when belletristic rhetoric shaped how the art of literary style and'the aesthetic' were understood. The second half offers new readings of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith to show how stylistic virtue changes our understanding of style in the novel and challenges conventional approaches to interpreting the ethics of art
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