CONTENTS
Preface = ⅸ
PART Ⅰ RELOCATING ETHICAL CRITICISM = 1
1 Introduction : Ethical Criticism, a Banned Discipline? = 3
2 Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times = 25
3 The Peculiar "Logic" of Evaluative Criticism = 49
4 The Threat of Subjectivism and the Ethics of Craft = 81
5 Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? = 125
PART Ⅱ THE MAKING OF FRIENDS AND COMMONWEALTHS : CRITICISM AS ETHICAL CULTURE = 157
Introduction : The Turn to Self-Culture = 159
6 Implied Authors as Friends and Pretenders = 169
7 Appraising Some Friends = 201
8 Consequences for Character : The Faking and Making of the "Self" = 227
9 Appraising Character : Desire against Desire = 265
10 Figures That "Figure" the Mind : Images and Metaphors as Constitutive Stories = 293
11 Metaphoric Worlds : Myths, Their Creators and Critics = 325
PART Ⅲ DOCTRINAL CRITICISM AND THE REDEMPTIONS OF CODUCTION = 375
Introduction = 377
12 Rabelais and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism = 383
13 Doctrinal Questions in Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence and Mark Twain = 421
Epilogue : The Ethics of Reading = 483
Appendix : An Anthology of Ethical Gifts, Thank-you Notes, and Warnings = 491
Bibliography of Ethical Criticism = 505
Index of Subjects = 535
Index of Names and Titles = 549
Preface = ⅸ
PART Ⅰ RELOCATING ETHICAL CRITICISM = 1
1 Introduction : Ethical Criticism, a Banned Discipline? = 3
2 Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times = 25
3 The Peculiar "Logic" of Evaluative Criticism = 49
4 The Threat of Subjectivism and the Ethics of Craft = 81
5 Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? = 125
PART Ⅱ THE MAKING OF FRIENDS AND COMMONWEALTHS : CRITICISM AS ETHICAL CULTURE = 157
Introduction : The Turn to Self-Culture = 159
6 Implied Authors as Friends and Pretenders = 169
7 Appraising Some Friends = 201
8 Consequences for Character : The Faking and Making of the "Self" = 227
9 Appraising Character : Desire against Desire = 265
10 Figures That "Figure" the Mind : Images and Metaphors as Constitutive Stories = 293
11 Metaphoric Worlds : Myths, Their Creators and Critics = 325
PART Ⅲ DOCTRINAL CRITICISM AND THE REDEMPTIONS OF CODUCTION = 375
Introduction = 377
12 Rabelais and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism = 383
13 Doctrinal Questions in Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence and Mark Twain = 421
Epilogue : The Ethics of Reading = 483
Appendix : An Anthology of Ethical Gifts, Thank-you Notes, and Warnings = 491
Bibliography of Ethical Criticism = 505
Index of Subjects = 535
Index of Names and Titles = 549