Relations between literature and ethics are currently the subject of much discussion amongst critics and philosophers alike. Dominic Rainsford furthers this debate by examining ways in which texts may appear to comment on their authors' own ethical status - problematical disclos…
The rise of the novel in the mid-18th century was also the rise of sentimentalism. This study explores the attitudes which led novelists to associate virtuous feeling with disabling suffering. It also examines the role of women in fiction and in society during that period.
"The second half of the fourteenth century was an important transition period both in the spheres of literary form and message, and of social, economic, and political power. This book is concerned with fourteenth-century literature, verse and prose, in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and M…
