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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.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on references and Abbreviations Introduction: Art, Morals and ´The Discovery of Reality´; A.Rowe & A.Horner PART I: MORALITY AND THE NOVEL Murdoch´s Mannered realism: Metafiction, Morality and the Post-War Novel; B.Nicol The Preacher´s Tone: Murdoch´s Mentors and Moralists; P.Martin Stories, Rituals and Healers in Iris Murdoch´s Novels; R.Hardy Laughing at Something Tragic: Murdoch as Anti-Moralist; P.Conradi ´Refinements of Evil´: Iris Murdoch and the Gothic; A.Horner PART II: A MORAL UNION: PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Iris Murdoch the Ethical Turn and Literary Value; S.Haines Murdoch´s Fictional Philosophers: What They Say and What They Show; S.Moore Death and Goodness: Bruno´s Dream and ´The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts´; M.Luprecht Jackson´s Dilemma and The Responsible Life of the Imagination; F.White PART III: MORALITY WITHOUT GOD: IRIS MURDOCH´S SECULAR THEOLOGY ´The Dream that Does Not Cease to Haunt Us´: Iris Murdoch´s Holiness; A.Rowe ´A Story About a Man´: The Demythologized Christ in the Work of Iris Murdoch and Patrick White; P.Osborn ´Do Not Seek God Outside Your Own Soul´: Buddhism in The Green Knight ; T.Grimshaw The Moral Fate of Fictive Persons: On Iris Murdoch´s Humanism; W.Schweiker Index

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´...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

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