John R. Reed, author of Victorian Conventions , The Natural History of H.G. Wells , and Decadent Style , has published a new critical study examining nineteenth-century British attitudes toward free will, determinism, providence, and fate. His new book, Victorian Will , argues for the need to understand a body of literature in its broadest historical and intellectual context. From among a number of different possibilities, Reed chose the concept of will -- whether understood as part of a providential scheme, as an ...
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John R. Reed, author of Victorian Conventions , The Natural History of H.G. Wells , and Decadent Style , has published a new critical study examining nineteenth-century British attitudes toward free will, determinism, providence, and fate. His new book, Victorian Will , argues for the need to understand a body of literature in its broadest historical and intellectual context. From among a number of different possibilities, Reed chose the concept of will -- whether understood as part of a providential scheme, as an illusory power in a determined existence, or as a free agent in a world of chance -- to illuminate the relationship of literary works of the period. Will was not only a prominent subject of discussion in Victorian England, but attitudes towards will affect form, style, and characterization in contemporary fiction, as Reed demonstrates in his discussion of the works of Mary Shelley, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and others. Victorian Will is destined to take its place beside Reed's other work as a standard reference in nineteenth-century study.
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Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 493 pages; Description: xvi, 493 p.; 23 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 418-478. Subjects: English fiction--19th century--History and criticism. Free will and determinism in literature. Philosophy, English--19th century. Fate and fatalism in literature. Philosophy in literature. Will in literature.
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