Avuncular ambiguity: Ethical virtue in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince (1973 and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins (1954)

This chapter will be twofold. Firstly an examination of the narrative place of incest within both Murdoch’s and de Beauvoir’s work and questioning the role of the ephebophilic attitudes of the central male characters to the younger, less experienced Julian Baffin ( The Black Prince, 1973) and Nadine...

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Main Author: Leeson, Miles
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Manchester University Press 2018
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526122162.003.0013