Iris Murdoch and Morality

This volume, featuring contributions from a number of leading scholars, explores the ways in which the moral positions Iris Murdoch adopts in her philosophy and theology can be aligned with her fiction, demonstrating how Murdoch's work can contribute significantly to discussions about the relationship between literature and morality.

ANNE ROWE is Senior Lecturer in English at Kingston University, UK.

AVRIL HORNER is Professor of English at Kingston University, UK.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Notes on References and Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Art, Morals and 'The Discovery of Reality'	p. 1
Morality and the Novel
Murdoch's Mannered Realism: Metafiction, Morality and the Post-War Novel	p. 17
The Preacher's Tone: Murdoch's Mentors and Moralists	p. 31
Stories, Rituals and Healers in Iris Murdoch's Fiction	p. 43
Laughing at Something Tragic: Murdoch as Anti-Moralist	p. 56
'Refinements of Evil': Iris Murdoch and the Gothic	p. 70
A Moral Union: Philosophy and Literature
Iris Murdoch, the Ethical Turn and literary Value	p. 87
Murdoch's Fictional Philosophers: What They Say and What They Show	p. 101
Death and Goodness: Bruno's Dream and 'The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts'	p. 113
Jackson's Dilemma and 'The Responsible life of the Imagination'	p. 126
Morality without God: Iris Murdoch's Secular Theology
'The Dream that does not Cease to Haunt us': Iris Murdoch's Holiness	p. 141
'A Story about a Man': The Demythologized Christ in the Novels of Iris Murdoch and Patrick White	p. 156
Do not Seek God outside your own Soul: Buddhism in The Green Knight	p. 168
The Moral Fate of Fictive Persons: On Iris Murdoch's Humanism	p. 180
Index	p. 194
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