The Ethics in Literature

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

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.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.