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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron Matz (Scripps College, California)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.410kg ISBN: 9781108970563ISBN 10: 1108970567 Pages: 263 Publication Date: 03 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Order and Origin; 2. Revenge of the Unborn; 3. Hardy and the Vanity of Procreation; 4. Lawrence's Storm of Fecundity; 5. The Children of Others in Woolf; 6. Reproduction and Dystopia; 7. Lessing on Generations and Freedom; 8. Procreating on Patmos.Reviews'… Matz's fresh take on familiar classics, makes The Novel and the Problem of New Life potentially appealing to a general, nonacademic audience … As a piece of original research, the book also makes compelling contributions to a range of fields, including Victorian and genre studies … Matz reveals here a rich countertradition of procreative skepticism, running in parallel to the marriage plot and even supplanting it as the characteristic fiction of its era.' Lindsay Wilhelm, Los Angeles Review of Books '... Matz's fresh take on familiar classics, makes The Novel and the Problem of New Life potentially appealing to a general, nonacademic audience ... As a piece of original research, the book also makes compelling contributions to a range of fields, including Victorian and genre studies ... Matz reveals here a rich countertradition of procreative skepticism, running in parallel to the marriage plot and even supplanting it as the characteristic fiction of its era.' Lindsay Wilhelm, Los Angeles Review of Books Author InformationAaron Matz is Professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and the author of Satire in an Age of Realism (Cambridge, 2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |