{"product_id":"harms-way-sandra-macpherson-9780801893841","title":"Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA field-defining study of the novel as a tragic form.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Macpherson's groundbreaking study of the rise of the novel connects its form to developments in liability law across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. In particular, Macpherson argues for a connection to legal principles of strict liability that hold persons accountable for harms inflicted upon others in the absence of intention, consent, direct action, or foreknowledge. In convincing polemical readings of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, she shows that these laws share with the novel the view that the state of a person's mind is irrelevant to the question of her responsibility for her actions. Macpherson urges readers to rethink the ancient consensus that the novel differs from tragedy in its elevation of character over plot. She concludes that the realist novel is ultimately a tragic form, committed to holding persons accountable for accidents of fate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacpherson's original insights continue to have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandra MacPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801893844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801893841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/22\/2010 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 270","brand":"Sandra MacPherson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086874456319,"sku":"9780801893841","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f92dd237-37aa-4432-9892-fe4aa01c7833.jpg?v=1769097081","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/harms-way-sandra-macpherson-9780801893841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}