Iris Murdoch and Morality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Art, Morals and ‘The Discovery of Reality’

   1. Introduction: Art, Morals and ‘The Discovery of Reality’

      • Anne Rowe, Avril Horner

      Pages 1-14

3. Morality and the Novel

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Murdoch’s Mannered Realism: Metafiction, Morality and the Post-War Novel

      • Bran Nicol

      Pages 17-30

   3. The Preacher’s Tone: Murdoch’s Mentors and Moralists

      • Priscilla Martin

      Pages 31-42

   4. Stories, Rituals and Healers in Iris Murdoch’s Fiction

      • Rob Hardy

      Pages 43-55

   5. Laughing at Something Tragic: Murdoch as Anti-Moralist

      • Peter J. Conradi

      Pages 56-69

   6. ‘Refinements of Evil’: Iris Murdoch and the Gothic

      • Avril Homer

      Pages 70-84

4. A Moral Union: Philosophy and Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Iris Murdoch, the Ethical Turn and Literary Value

      • Simon Haines

      Pages 87-100

   3. Murdoch’s Fictional Philosophers: What They Say and What They Show

      • Scott H. Moore

      Pages 101-112

   4. Death and Goodness: Bruno’s Dream and ‘The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts’

      • Mark Luprecht

      Pages 113-125

   5. Jackson’s Dilemma and ‘The Responsible Life of the Imagination’

      • Frances White

      Pages 126-138

5. Morality without God: Iris Murdoch’s Secular Theology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. ‘The Dream that does not Cease to Haunt us’: Iris Murdoch’s Holiness

      • Anne Rowe

      Pages 141-155

   3. ‘A Story about a Man’: The Demythologized Christ in the Novels of Iris Murdoch and Patrick White

      • Pamela Osborn

      Pages 156-167

   4. Do not Seek God outside your own Soul: Buddhism in The Green Knight

      • Tammy Grimshaw

      Pages 168-179

   5. The Moral Fate of Fictive Persons: On Iris Murdoch’s Humanism

      • William Schweiker

      Pages 180-193

6. Back Matter

   Pages 194-198

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Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.

• English literature
• ethics
• fiction
• morality
• novel
• philosophy
• British and Irish Literature

'...this excellent slection of essays would no doubt broaden the readership and would be most welcome in the current economic climate...this collection is both a welcome addition and a necessary marker in contemporary studies of her work.' - Miscelanea

• Kingston University, UK

  Anne Rowe

• Kingston University, London, UK

  Avril Horner

PETER CONRADI Emeritus Professor of English, Kingston University and Honorary Research Fellow, University College, London, UK TAMMY GRIMSHAW Freelance writer ROB HARDY Department of English, Open University, UK SIMON HAINES Professor of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong MARK LUPRECHT Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department, University of Tennessee, USA PRISCILLA MARTIN Tutor, English and Classics, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK SCOTT H. MOORE Associate Professor of Philosophy and Great Texts and Director of the Great Texts Program, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA BRAN NICOL Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK PAMELA OSBORN PhD student, Kingston University, UK WILLIAM SCHWEIKER Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, USA FRANCES WHITE Assistant Director of the Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies, Kingston University, UK

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