Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British literature

• Other Authors: Ganteau, Jean-Michel (Editor), Reynier, Christine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2013
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; modernism; ethics; politics; alterity; British arts; contemporary art
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the last few decades, in the wake of the 'Ethical Turn', contemporary literature has been examined through the prism of the ethics of alterity. Yet, this may not be consis­tently the case with Victorian and Modernist literature, since relatively few of the authors of those periods hav...