Introduction

literature and the return to ethics

Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford, Tim Woods

1-14

Ethics, autobiography and the will

Stephen Spender's World within world

Richard Freadman

17-37

"Ethics cannot afford to be nation-blind"

Saul Bellow and the problem of the victim

Andrew Hadfield

38-51

Have you reread Levinas lately?

transformations of the face in post-Holocaust fiction

Norman Ravvin

52-69

The unbearable lightness of acts

Valeria Wagner

73-85

Secret agent, absent agent?

ethical-stylistic aspects of anarchy in Conrad's the secret agent

Ruth Kolani

86-100

John Cheever's the Swimmer and the abstract standpoint of Kantian moral philosophy

Rebecca Hughes, Kieron O'Hara

101-115

Understanding and ethics in Coleridge

description, evaluation and otherness

David P. Haney

119-135

Derrida, Rushdie and the ethics of mortality

Chris McNab

136-151

"Role models", conversation and the ethical drive

Ian MacKillop

152-166

Feminist ethical reading strategies in Michéle Roberts's In the red kitchen

hysterical reading and making theory hysterical

Susan Rowland

169-183

Sensibility and suffering in Rhys and Nin

Andrew Gibson

184-211

Moral capacities and other constraints

Cristina Mejia

212-228

"Sweet dreams, monstered nothings"

catachresis in Kant and Coriolanus

Ortwin de Graef

231-247

Literature and existentialist ethics in Simone de Beauvoir's "moral period"

Terry Keefe

248-261

Sympathy and science in Frankenstein

Jānis McLarren Caldwell

262-274