“ART FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE” The Social Novel as a Mode of Moral Discourse

The social novel ought not to be confused with didacticism in literature and ought not to be expected to provide prescriptions for the cure of social ills. Neither should it necessarily be viewed as ephemeral. After examining justifications of the social novel offered by William Dean Howells (in the...

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Main Author: Yeager, Diane M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2005
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2005, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 445-485
Further subjects:B social trust
B Middle class
B W. D. Howells
B social novel
B H. Sidgwick
B Moral Discourse
B Social Ethics
B J. Franzen
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