A Nation of Madame Bovarys : on the possibility and desirability of moral improvement through fiction

In Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 63--94 (2008)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Prudence or Oneiromancy? A Parody of Didacticism Preaching to the Converted The Asymmetry of “Imaginative Resistance” Virtue Ethics and Gossip Qualifications Positive Views.

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