Ethics in Literature

JANIS MCLARREN CALDWELL Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest UniversityORTWIN DE GRAEF Lecturer in English and Literary Theory at Katholiecke Universiteit LeuvenRICHARD 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 LondonDAVID P. HANEY Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, AlabamaREBECCA HUGHES Deputy Director of the Centre for English Language Education at the University of NottinghamTERRY KEEFE formerly Head of French and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Leicester UniversityRUTH KOLANI recently received her doctorate from the University of Texas at DallasIAN MACKILLOP Reader in English Literature at the University of SheffieldCHRIS MCNAB PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Wales, AberystwythCRISTINA MEJIA obtained her BA in Art History from McGill UniversityKIERON O'HARA Researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Department of Psychology, Nottingham UniversityNORMAN RAVVIN works as a critic, novelist and teaches at the University of New BrunswickSUSAN ROWLAND Lecturer in English in the School of Humanities at the University of GreenwichVALERIA WAGNER gained her PhD from the University of Geneva

• 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