Overview
- Editors:
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Andrew Hadfield
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Department of English and American Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
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Dominic Rainsford
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Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Tim Woods
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Department of English and American Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction: Literature and the Return to Ethics
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- Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford, Tim Woods
Pages 1-14
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Agency and Responsibility
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- Rebecca Hughes, Kieron O’Hara
Pages 101-115
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Literature, Interpretation and Ethics
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Front Matter
Pages 117-117
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Sympathy for the Other
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Front Matter
Pages 167-167
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Public Morality
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Front Matter
Pages 229-229
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About this book
The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism, postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.
About the editors
JANIS MCLARREN CALDWELL Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University
ORTWIN DE GRAEF Lecturer in English and Literary Theory at Katholiecke Universiteit Leuven
RICHARD FREDMAN Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Studies in Biography and Autobiography at La Trobe University
ANDREW GIBSON Reader in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
DAVID P. HANEY Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, Alabama
REBECCA HUGHES Deputy Director of the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham
TERRY KEEFE formerly Head of French and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Leicester University
RUTH KOLANI recently received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Dallas
IAN MACKILLOP Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield
CHRIS MCNAB PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
CRISTINA MEJIA obtained her BA in Art History from McGill University
KIERON O'HARA Researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Department of Psychology, Nottingham University
NORMAN RAVVIN works as a critic, novelist and teaches at the University of New Brunswick
SUSAN ROWLAND Lecturer in English in the School of Humanities at the University of Greenwich
VALERIA WAGNER gained her PhD from the University of Geneva
