Burdens of Perfection : On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.
Title:
Burdens of Perfection : On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.
Author:
Miller, Andrew H.
ISBN:
9780801460838
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing -- The Narrative of Improvement -- Skepticism and Perfectionism I -- Skepticism and Perfectionism II -- Interlude -- Reading Thoughts -- The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- Perfectly Helpless -- Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- The Knowledge of Shame -- On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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