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Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends. Professor Berthoff outlines the descent of the intuition of virtue from classical times into our own era and examines it as a formative presence in a series of major literary works.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Virtue in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Literature --- Didactic literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Theory --- Ad hominem. --- After Virtue. --- Allegory. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Antithesis. --- Apologue. --- Assonance. --- Bildungsroman. --- Chivalric romance. --- Consummation. --- Contingency (philosophy). --- Courtly love. --- Criticism. --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Dictionnaire philosophique. --- Eloquence. --- Epigram. --- Epigraph (literature). --- Fabliau. --- Fiction. --- Figure of speech. --- Fine art. --- Flattery. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Fortinbras. --- French moralists. --- G. (novel). --- Grandiosity. --- Hedonism. --- Hermeticism. --- Heroic couplet. --- Heroic drama. --- Heroic verse. --- Historicism. --- Idealization. --- Indulgence. --- Intentionality. --- Internal rhyme. --- Irony. --- Irving Babbitt. --- Italo Svevo. --- Karl Kraus (writer). --- Libertine. --- Literary nonsense. --- Literature. --- Memoir. --- Modernism. --- Mutability (poem). --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- Negative capability. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Of Education. --- On Truth. --- Opportunism. --- Originality. --- Phrenology. --- Poetry. --- Polonius. --- Positivism. --- Pragmatism. --- Precaution (novel). --- Pride. --- Prose. --- Proverb. --- Quixotism. --- Robert Musil. --- Romanticism. --- Rosicrucianism. --- Satire. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-Reliance. --- Sensibility. --- Soliloquy. --- Solipsism. --- Stendhal. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symbolism (arts). --- Synecdoche. --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- The Book of Thel. --- The Charterhouse of Parma. --- The Counterfeiters (novel). --- The Man Without Qualities. --- The Philosopher. --- The Sacred Fount. --- Theodore Dreiser. --- Theory of Forms. --- Truism. --- Ulrich. --- V. --- Verbosity. --- Vocation (poem). --- W. B. Yeats. --- What Is Literature?. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.