Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies By Daniel Jernigan, Neil Murphy, Brendan Quigley, and Tamara Wagner
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Questions of Responsibility (Brendan Quigley)
Chapter 1: Derrida’s Ethics of “Irresponsibilization”; or, How to Get Irresponsible, in Two Easy Lessons (J. Hillis Miller)
Chapter 2: The Ethics of Irresponsibility: A Tale of Two Georges (Eugene O’Brien)
Chapter 3: A Question of Responsibility and a Matter of Form: V. S. Naipaul’s A Way in the World (Shirley Chew)
Chapter 4: “To my creditors I bequeath my body…”: Stock Market Suicides and the Allure of Self-Destruction in Victorian Fiction (Tamara S. Wagner)
Chapter 5: Narrative Responsibility and the Sherlock Holmes Stories (Edward H. Cohen)
Chapter 6: Exotic Eroticism in the Late-Victorian Anglo-Indian Women’s Romance:
Moral and Narrative Responsibilities (Julia Kuehn)
Chapter 7: Irresponsibility and Self-Knowledge: Mansfield Park as Bildungsroman, Satire, and Confessional Novel (Terence Dawson)
Chapter 8: Modernism and the Irresponsible Allusion: Joyce, Eliot, and Pound (Angela Frattarola)
Chapter 9: Masters of the Irresponsible: Irish Writing and the Tradition of Dissent (Neil Murphy)
Chapter 10: The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Flann O’Brien and the Irish Censorship Code (Keith Hopper)
Chapter 11: Beyond History: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale: Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782 (Derek Hand)
Chapter 12: The Responsible Eiron: J. Hillis Miller on Speech Acts (Brendan Quigley)
Chapter 13: Being Irresponsible in J. M. Coetzee’s Novel Disgrace (Suzie Gibson)
Chapter 14: Reading, Death, and Postmodern Irresponsibility in Martin Amis’ Money (Stephan Laqué)
Chapter 15: Irresponsible Women, Irresponsible Men: Joseph Conrad’s Short Stories
(Cordula Lemke)
Chapter 16: ‘Memories of carefree childhood’? Ir/responsible Subjects in J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood and Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Coorain (Sarah O’Mahony)
Chapter 17: Slaughter and the Innocents: Fantasy Fiction, Children, Killing, and Death (Richard C. Burke)
Chapter 18: Responsible Irresponsibility in the Institutions of Reading (J. E. Elliott)
List of Contributors
Index
