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- 题名/责任者:
- The novel and the problem of new life / Aaron Matz.
- 出版发行项:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- ISBN:
- 9781108839273
- ISBN:
- 9781108970563
- 载体形态项:
- xvii, 245 pages ; 24 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Matz, Aaron, 1975- author.
- 论题主题:
- English fiction-19th century-History and criticism.
- 论题主题:
- English fiction-20th century-History and criticism.
- 体裁索引词:
- Literary criticism.
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.074
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- Order and Origin -- Revenge of the Unborn -- Hardy and the Vanity of Procreation -- Lawrence's Storm of Fecundity -- The Children of Others in Woolf -- Reproduction and Dystopia -- Lessing on Generations and Freedom -- Procreating on Patmos.
- 摘要附注:
- "The novel since the nineteenth century has displayed a thorny ambivalence toward the question of having children. In its representation of human vitality it can seem to promote the giving of life, but again and again it betrays a nagging doubt about the moral implications of procreation. The Novel and the Problem of New Life identifies this tension as a defining quality of the modern British and European novel. Beginning with the procreative-skeptical writings of Flaubert, Butler, and Hardy, then turning to the high modernist work of Lawrence, Woolf, and Huxley, and culminating in the postwar fiction of Lessing and others, this book chronicles the history of the novel as it came to accommodate greater misgivings about the morality of reproduction. This is the first study to examine in literature a problem that has long troubled philosophers, environmental thinkers, and so many people in everyday life"--
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