TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Andrew H.
TI  - The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
SN  - 9780801460838
AV  - PR468 
U1  - 820.9/384 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
KW  - Perfection in literature
KW  - Ethics in literature
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Books and reading -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - A study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture, this book reads a wide range of essayists, poets, and novelists through the lens of ethics and philosophy of mind
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ER  -