| Foreword by Wayne C. Booth |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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| Part I: Ethical Criticism and Literary Theory |
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1 Premises on Art and Morality |
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2 The Moral Connections of Literary Texts |
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3 Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple |
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4 Ethical Criticism: What It Is and Why It Matters |
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5 Against Ethical Criticism |
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6 Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism? |
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7 The Absence of the Ethical: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory |
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8 Evaluative Discourse: A New Turn toward the Ethical |
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9 The Moral and the Aesthetical: Literary Study and the Social Order |
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| Part II: Philosophy, Religion, and Literature |
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131 | (8) |
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11 The "Ancient Quarrel": Literature and Moral Philosophy |
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13 The Absence of Stories: Filling the Void in Ethics |
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14 Literature and the Catholic Perspective |
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15 Literature and Protestantism |
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16 Something to Measure By: Quaker Values in Literature |
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17 Literary Criticism and Religious Values |
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| Part III: Writers' Responsibilities |
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213 | (2) |
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19 The Writer's Moral Sense |
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20 Imaginative Writing and the Jewish Experience |
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219 | (6) |
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21 The Problem of Evil in Fiction |
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225 | (6) |
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22 Poetry, Politics, and Morality |
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239 | (2) |
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24 What Violence in Literature Must Teach Us |
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241 | (10) |
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251 | (12) |
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| Part IV: Readers and Ethical Criticism |
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26 The Case against Huck Finn |
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27 Why We Still Need Huckleberry Finn |
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28 Huckleberry Finn: An Amazing, Troubling Book |
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29 The Ethical Dimensions of Richard Wright's Native Son |
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30 Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading |
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31 Steinbeck, Johnson, and the Master/Slave Relationship |
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32 Censorship and the Classroom |
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| Notes |
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| Glossary |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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| Permissions |
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| Index |
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| About the Contributors |
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