Name: Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form (en Inglés)
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Author: Sandra Macpherson

portada Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form (en Inglés)

Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Johns Hopkins University Press

Autor

Sandra Macpherson

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781421429014

Categorías

Teoría literaria
Semiótica/semiología

Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form (en Inglés)

Sandra Macpherson (Autor) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Sandra Macpherson's groundbreaking study of the rise of the novel connects its form to developments in liability law across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. In particular, Macpherson argues for a connection to legal principles of strict liability that hold persons accountable for harms inflicted upon others in the absence of intention, consent, direct action, or foreknowledge. In convincing polemical readings of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, she shows that these laws share with the novel the view that the state of a person's mind is irrelevant to the question of her responsibility for her actions. Macpherson urges readers to rethink the ancient consensus that the novel differs from tragedy in its elevation of character over plot. She concludes that the realist novel is ultimately a tragic form, committed to holding persons accountable for accidents of fate. Macpherson's original insights continue to have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the novel.