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This highly sophisticated landmark book adamantly challenges our fascination with form and replaces it unapologetically with content, the contemporary 'mark of Cain'. The primacy of thinking and ideas in literature takes the author from philosophers as diverse as Henry Sidgwick and Martha Nussbaum and to writers as different as Trollope and Augusta Webster. Essential reading for those concerned with ethics and aesthetics in literary criticism.-- ""Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London"" Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature offers an important, early contribution ... I hope to see content formalism spread.--Jonathan Farina ""The New Rambler""

"This highly sophisticated landmark book adamantly challenges our fascination with form and replaces it unapologetically with content, the contemporary 'mark of Cain'. The primacy of thinking and ideas in literature takes the author from philosophers as diverse as Henry Sidgwick and Martha Nussbaum and to writers as different as Trollope and Augusta Webster. Essential reading for those concerned with ethics and aesthetics in literary criticism.-- ""Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London"" Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature offers an important, early contribution ... I hope to see content formalism spread.--Jonathan Farina ""The New Rambler"""

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Patrick Fessenbecker, Assistant Professor in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University.

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