"Didactic literature, English History and criticism." . . "Ethik." . . "Ethics in literature." . . "Ethics in literature" . "English literature" . . "Livres et lecture Aspect moral Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle." . . "Literature and morals." . . "Literature and morals" . "Ethik Motiv Englische Literatur." . . "Englisch." . . "Moral." . . "Didactic literature, English" . . "Geschichte 1800-1900" . . "Leser." . . "Englisch." . . "Perfection in literature." . . "Perfection in literature" . "Littérature didactique anglaise Histoire et critique." . . . . "Lesen (Leser) Grossbritannien Geschichte 19. Jh." . . "Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique." . . "Englische Literatur Motiv Ethik." . . "Perfection Dans la littérature." . . "Littérature et morale." . . "Morale Dans la littérature." . . "Great Britain" . . "Didaktische Literatur englische Geschichte 19. Jh." . . "Literatur." . . "English literature 19th century History and criticism." . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Books and reading Moral and ethical aspects" . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . . . "History" . "History"@en . . "In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are. The Burdens of Perfection Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods. Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. --From publisher's description."@en . . . . "The burdens of perfection on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature"@en . "The burdens of perfection on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . "The burdens of perfection : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature"@en . "The burdens of perfection : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Moral <Motiv>" . . "Books and reading Moral and ethical aspects Great Britain History 19th century." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh" . .