The Novel and the Problem of New Life
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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The Novel and the Problem of New Life
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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The Novel and the Problem of New Life

The Novel and the Problem of New Life

by Aaron Matz
The Novel and the Problem of New Life

The Novel and the Problem of New Life

by Aaron Matz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108970563
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/03/2022
Pages: 263
Product dimensions: 5.94(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Aaron Matz is Professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and the author of Satire in an Age of Realism (Cambridge, 2010).

Table of Contents

1. 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.
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