Ethics in literature
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Witness against the beast
Sins of the Fathers
Wilkie Collins and other sensation novelists
Appropriate Form
Katie's canon
From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison
No More Heroes
The ethics of indeterminacy in the novels of William Gaddis
Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters (Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives)
The limits of heroism
Ethics, evil, and fiction
Charles Dickens
Writing the Republic
Delicate subjects
The ethics of George Eliot's works
Living in Hope and History
Moral economy and American realistic novels
Samuel Johnson and the scale of greatness
Literature and legal problem solving
Cosmopolitan Fictions
The English gentleman
Blessings in disguise, or, The morality of evil
Walker Percy, art and ethics
The death of Satan
Trials of character
The hell of the English
The committed word
Milton and the post-secular present
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading
Jonathan Swift; romantic and cynic moralist
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