紹介
Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors' ethical status. Its argument develops through readings of Blake, Dickens, and Joyce, three authors who find especially vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, at the same time as they expose wider social ills. The book combines its interest in ethics with post-structuralist scepticism, and thus develops a type of radical humanism with applications far beyond the three authors immediately discussed.
目次
Acknowledgements - Texts and Abbreviations - Introduction - PART 1: BLAKE - Melancholia and the Search for a System - Images of Authorship/Experiments with Ethics - The Analyst and Agent of Wrongs - PART 2: DICKENS - Innocence and Experience, Again - From Wish-Fulfilment to Ascetic Flatness - Unsolved Problems and Deviant Narrators - PART 3: JOYCE - The Ineluctable Modality of the Ethical - Conclusion: Meeting the Author/Facing the Book - Notes - Index
