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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Good and Evil
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Agency and Altruism
Reviews
“A wide-ranging set of essays that both sharpen the focus and broaden the field, to include issues of ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics, as well as comparative studies that reveal the extent of Nabokov’s engagement with formative developments in Russian and European literature and thought.” (Barbara Wyllie, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 97 (2), April, 2019)
“Nabokov and the Question of Morality … assembles some of the best recent thought on it. … The volume should be required reading for any scholar seeking insight into the virtuoso … .” (Thomas Seifrid, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 61 (3), 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. The author of over thirty essays on Nabokov, she was twice elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and currently coedits NABOKV-L, the Vladimir Nabokov Electronic Forum. She also publishes widely on American literature, detective fiction, and narrative theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nabokov and the Question of Morality
Book Subtitle: Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Fiction
Editors: Michael Rodgers, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59221-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59666-6Published: 01 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95555-8Published: 21 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59221-7Published: 31 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 241
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Aesthetics, Fiction