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but is implicated in colonial regimes of control and as such plays a role in Europe's process of identity construction of itself and of non-European "others

Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction 0071459588 approaches those topics in aBringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist English novel produce a new ethics of hospitality. Hollander reads texts that both portray and enact a unique ethical orientation of welcoming the