Beschreibung:
Visiting late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist English novel produce a new ethics of hospitality.
1. "The ardent eighties:" Hospitality and realism at the end of the century 2. George Eliot leaves home 3. "This house from this moment is yours and not mine:" Unconditional hospitality in The Woodlanders 4. Unhomely ethics and radical intimacy in The Story of an African Farm 5. Homeless modernity in Jacob¿s Room Afterword: Hospitality of the "post-"