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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nValerie Wainwright has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.  \nPublished by  \nAshgate Publishing Limited Gower House  \nCroft Road  \nAldershot  \nHampshire GU11 3HR England  \nAshgate Publishing Company Suite 420  \n101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA  \nAshgate website: [http://www.ashgate.com](http://www.ashgate.com)  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nWainwright, Valerie  \nEthics and the English novel from Austen to Forster  \n1. Ethics in literature 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism  \nI. Title  \n823’.8’09353  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nWainwright, Valerie, 1951-  \nEthics and the English novel from Austen to Forster / by Valerie Wainwright. [p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5432-2 (alk. paper)  \n1. Ethics in literature. 2. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 3. English fiction—20th century—History and criticism. I. Title.  \nPR868 .E67W35 2007  \n823’.809384—dc22  \n2006031680  \nISBN: 978-0-7546-5432-2  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements vi  \nIntroduction 1  \nPART 1: WHAT MATTERS (MOST)  \n1 Modes and Sensibilities: Varieties of Ethical Thought 21  \n2 Narrative Perspectives 45  \nPART 2: ETHICAL DESIGNS  \n3 On Being Un/reasonable: Mansfield Park and the Limits of Persuasion 59  \n4 Discovering Autonomy and Authenticity in North and South: Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the Liberal Ethic 85  \n5 On Goods, Virtues and Hard Times 105  \n6 Anatomizing Excellence: Middlemarch, Moral Saints and the Languages of Belief 123  \n7 The Magic in Mentalité: Hardy’s Native Returns 143  \n8 Howards End and the Confession of Imperfection 161  \nAfterword: Utz 183  \nBibliography 197  \nIndex 209  \nAcknowledgements  \nThis book has taken shape over the years and thanks are due to editors who have allowed me to publish here parts of studies that first appeared in the pages of their journals. An earlier version of ‘Discovering Autonomy and Authenticity in North and South: Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill and the Liberal Ethic’ came out in Clio, 23 (1994), while chapter 5 has developed out of ‘On Goods, Virtues and Hard Times’, Dickens Studies Annual 26 (1998) . Thanks are also due to the editors of English and the English Association for permission to reprint parts of two articles,‘Anatomizing Excellence: Middlemarch, Moral Saints and the Languages of Belief’  \n49 (2000), and ‘Un Being Un/reasonable: Mansfield Park and the Limits of Persuasion’ 53 (2004) .  \nFor helpful comments on my study of Middlemarch, I should like to thank Ken Newton and Stan Smith. The careful response of Ashgate’s external reader was invaluable. His detailed and insightful comments have enabled me to recognize problems and considerably improve the text; though I doubt not that there are still points that require clarifying, qualifying or developing.  \nSpecial thanks for comments, discussions and encouragement go to Paul and Marianne Joannides. My warmest thanks also to Jennie Osborn for making periods of research in London such a pleasure.  \nFor their patience and skills during the editorial processes I should like to thank Ann Donahue, Meredith Coeyman and Pat FitzGerald.  \nFor granting me a sabbatical and research grants with which to complete this work, I thank the Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna of the University of Florence.  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