The ethics in literature

Edited by
Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford, Tim Woods

Palgrave Macmillan

1999

Abstract

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.

Cited authors

Derrida Jacques

Levinas Emmanuel

Kant Immanuel

Shakespeare William

Shelley Mary