The Novel and the Problem of New Life

by Aaron Matz

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108839274
• ISBN13: 9781108839273
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"