Dark Mirror

Autorentext

Richard C. Sterne is Professor of English at Simmons College, Boston.

Klappentext

Dark Mirror is the first study of European and American literature that comprehensively treats the historical conflict between idealistic (natural law) and 'realistic' or cynical approaches to the idea of justice. Works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Mauriac, Martin du Gard, Dreiser, Brecht, Koestler, Melville, Kafka, Camus, Cozzens, Snow, and others are examined.

Zusammenfassung
Focuses on European and American trial fiction since about 1880, arguing that, although generally animated by a sense of injustice, this literature reflects the virtual collapse in Western culture of the idea of a universal, or "natural", ethical law.