Routledge Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction

Explore the complex relationship between literature and morality in Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction. Part of the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature series, this work connects poststructuralist ethical theory with historical debates regarding the morality of the novel. This book examines how late realist English novels create specific ethical responses in readers. By looking at the connections between nation, family, and literary form, the text explains how these novels develop a new ethics of hospitality. Hollander analyzes literature that both depicts and performs a unique way of welcoming the other. This study provides a deep look at how Victorian authors engaged with the real world while maintaining a modern awareness of narrative structure. It is an essential resource for scholars interested in how the form of the novel itself shapes our ethical orientation toward the world and the people within it.