The burdens of perfection: on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature
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Preface xi
Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction i
Improvement and Moral Perfectionism
Moral Perfectionism in the Winter of 1866-67
Historical Sources
Intplicative and Condusive Criticism
Part I. The Narrative of Improvement
i. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire 35
Standing Before Camelot
Skepticism as Ungoverned Desire: Browning s Duke
Skepticism as Mechanization: Carlyle and Mill
Mr. Dombey Rides Death
z. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will 54
Victorian Akrasia
Perspective and Commitment
Hard Times and Akrasia
Daniel Deronda and Second-Person Relations
Orchestrating Perspectives
Mark Tapley s Nausea
Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse 84
ix
3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration 92
Casuistry and the Novel
The Theater of Casuistry: Dramatic Monologues
Exetnplary Criticism
Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement
4. Perfectly Helpless 123
The Reticulation of Constraint
Sigmund Freud and Richard Simpson
5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman 142
An Evil Crust Is on Them
The Violence of Our Dentals
Watching and Imitation
Close Reading
6. The Knowledge of Shame 162
Skepticism and Shame
Three Scenes of Shame
Edith Dombey s Shame
Shame and Being Knotvn
Shame and Great Expectations
Shame and Narration
7. On Lives Unled 191
Nailed to Ourselves
Environments for the Optative
The Jamesian Optative
Afterword 219
Notes 223
Bibliography 235
Index 251
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Contents
Preface xi
Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction i
Improvement and Moral Perfectionism
Moral Perfectionism in the Winter of 1866-67
Historical Sources
Intplicative and Condusive Criticism
Part I. The Narrative of Improvement
i. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire 35
Standing Before Camelot
Skepticism as Ungoverned Desire: Browning's Duke
Skepticism as Mechanization: Carlyle and Mill
Mr. Dombey Rides Death
z. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will 54
Victorian Akrasia
Perspective and Commitment
Hard Times and Akrasia
Daniel Deronda and Second-Person Relations
Orchestrating Perspectives
Mark Tapley's Nausea
Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse 84
ix
3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration 92
Casuistry and the Novel
The Theater of Casuistry: Dramatic Monologues
Exetnplary Criticism
Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement
4. Perfectly Helpless 123
The Reticulation of Constraint
Sigmund Freud and Richard Simpson
5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman 142
"An Evil Crust Is on Them"
The Violence of Our Dentals
Watching and Imitation
Close Reading
6. The Knowledge of Shame 162
Skepticism and Shame
Three Scenes of Shame
Edith Dombey's Shame
Shame and Being Knotvn
Shame and Great Expectations
Shame and Narration
7. On Lives Unled 191
Nailed to Ourselves
Environments for the Optative
The Jamesian Optative
Afterword 219
Notes 223
Bibliography 235
Index 251 |
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