Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature

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Utilitarianism in Charles Dickens’s Hard
Times 95

value 175–206
analysis of extracts 193–206
criteria for good literature 188–93
and enjoyment 188
and originality 175–81
and realist literature 181–2
and timelessness of literature 183–8
values see morality; virtue
verse see poetry
viewpoints see narrative
villains see rogues and villains
Virgil 60
Georgics 121
virtue
and Aristotelean moral values 59–60
narrative and reward of 101–2, 103
virtuous characters 50, 51, 52–4,
164–5

Waugh, Evelyn 65, 190

Decline and Fall 95–6

‘Mr Loveday’s Little Outing’

147–8

‘Tactical Exercise’ 194–5

Wilde, Oscar 55, 67, 83, 85, 190

Williams, William Carlos 192

women

and amorous narrators 94

character of Sue Bridehead 70–5

mermaid imagery 201–2

Woodhouse, Emma (character) see

under Austen, Jane, Emma

Woolf, Virginia 65, 67, 69, 110, 191

Mrs Dalloway 64

Wuthering Heights see under Brontë,

Emily

Yeats, W.B. 28

‘Easter 1916’ 135, 139