Preface: Reading Literature and the Ethics of Criticism / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack
I. Theory and the Ethics of Literary Study
Humanistic Ethics of Reading / Daniel R. Schwarz
Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple / Wayne C. Booth
Lyrical Ethics and Literary Experience / Charles Altieri
Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism / Martha C. Nussbaum
II. Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power
Who Has the Right to Feel? The Ethics of Literary Empathy / Kathleen Lundeen
Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading / James Phelan
Moral Repair and Its Limits / Margaret Urban Walker
III. Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness
Ethics before Politics: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace / James Meffan and Kim L. Worthington
List Is Life: Schindler's List as Ethical Construct / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack
Poets of Testimony: C. K. Williams and Jacqueline Osherow as Proxy Witnesses of the Shoah / Susan Gubar
IV. Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism
Forget the Phallic Symbolism, Consider the Snake: Biocentrism and Language in Margaret Atwood's "Snake Poems" / Ian Marshall
Making, Taking, and Faking Lives: Ethical Problems in Collaborative Life Writing / G. Thomas Couser
Scandal of Human Countenance: Witold Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz in Exile from the Country of Forms / Adam Zachary Newton
Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism / Cora Diamond
How to Be "in Tune with the Right" in The Golden Bowl / J. Hillis Miller.
