The Ethics in Literature

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Literature and the Return to Ethics A.Hadfield, D.Rainsford and T.Woods SECTION I: SELF AND HISTORY Ethics, Autobiography and the Will: Stephen Spender's 'World Within World' R.Freadman 'Ethics Cannot Afford to be Nation-Blind': Saul Bellow and the Problem of the Victim A.Hadfield Have You Reread Levinas Lately? Transformations of the Face in Post-Holocaust Fiction N.Ravvin SECTION II: AGENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY The Unbearable Lightness of Acts V.Wagner Secret Agent, Absent Agent? Ethical-Stylistic Aspects of Anarchy in Conrad's 'The Secret Agent' R.Kolani John Cheever's 'The Swimmer' and the Abstract Standpoint of Kantian Moral Philosophy R.Hughes and K.O'Hara SECTION III: LITERATURE, INTERPRETATION AND ETHICS Understanding and Ethics in Coleridge: Description, Evaluation and Otherness D.Haney Derrida, Rushdie and the Ethics of Mortality C.McNab 'Role Models', Conversation and the Ethical Drive I.MacKillop SECTION IV: SYMPATHY FOR THE OTHER Feminist Ethical Reading Strategies in Mich? Roberts's 'In the Red Kitchen': Hysterical Reading and Making Theory Hysterical S.Rowland Sensibility and Suffering in Rhys and Nin A.Gibson Moral Capacities and Other Constraints C.Mej?SECTION V: PUBLIC MORALITY 'Sweet Dreams, Monstered Nothings': Catachresis in Kant and 'Coriolanus' O.de Graef Literature and Existentialist Ethics in Simone de Beauvoir's 'Moral Period' T.Keefe Sympathy and Science in 'Frankenstein' J.M.Caldwell Index