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Iris Murdoch and Morality AlsobyAnneRowe IRISMURDOCH:AReassessment(editor) SACREDSPACE,BELOVEDCITY:IrisMurdoch’sLondon(withCherylBove) THEVISUALARTSANDTHENOVELSOFIRISMURDOCH AlsobyAvrilHorner BODYMATTERS:Feminism,Textuality,Corporeality(co-editedwithAngelaKeane) DAPHNEDUMAURIER:Writing,IdentityandtheGothicImagination(withSue Zlosnik) EUROPEANGOTHIC:ASpiritedExchange,1760–1960(editor) GOTHICANDTHECOMICTURN(withSueZlosnik) LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE: Metaphors in Modern Women’s Fiction (with Sue Zlosnik) LEGOTHIC:InfluencesandAppropriationsinEuropeandAmerica(co-editedwith SueZlosnik) Iris Murdoch and Morality Editedby Anne Rowe and Avril Horner Introduction,selectionandeditorialmatter©AnneRowe& AvrilHorner2010 Individualchapters©contributors2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-22445-2 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentified astheauthorsofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2010by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-30947-4 ISBN 978-0-230-27722-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230277229 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 For Iestyn Gareth Rowe, Samuel Kosey Horner and Felix Matthew Horner This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix NotesonContributors x NotesonReferencesandAbbreviations xiii Introduction:Art,Moralsand‘TheDiscoveryofReality’ 1 AnneRoweandAvrilHorner Part I MoralityandtheNovel 1 Murdoch’sManneredRealism:Metafiction,Morality andthePost-WarNovel 17 BranNicol 2 ThePreacher’sTone:Murdoch’sMentorsandMoralists 31 PriscillaMartin 3 Stories,RitualsandHealersinIrisMurdoch’sFiction 43 RobHardy 4 LaughingatSomethingTragic:MurdochasAnti-Moralist 56 PeterJ.Conradi 5 ‘RefinementsofEvil’:IrisMurdochandtheGothic 70 AvrilHorner Part II AMoralUnion:PhilosophyandLiterature 6 IrisMurdoch,theEthicalTurnandLiteraryValue 87 SimonHaines 7 Murdoch’sFictionalPhilosophers:WhatTheySayand WhatTheyShow 101 ScottH.Moore 8 DeathandGoodness:Bruno’sDreamand‘TheSovereignty ofGoodoverOtherConcepts’ 113 MarkLuprecht vii viii Contents 9 Jackson’sDilemmaand‘TheResponsibleLifeofthe Imagination’ 126 FrancesWhite Part III MoralitywithoutGod:IrisMurdoch’s SecularTheology 10 ‘TheDreamthatdoesnotCeasetoHauntus’:Iris Murdoch’sHoliness 141 AnneRowe 11 ‘AStoryaboutaMan’:TheDemythologizedChrist intheNovelsofIrisMurdochandPatrickWhite 156 PamelaOsborn 12 DonotSeekGodoutsideyourownSoul:BuddhisminThe GreenKnight 168 TammyGrimshaw 13 TheMoralFateofFictivePersons:OnIrisMurdoch’s Humanism 180 WilliamSchweiker Index 194 Acknowledgements The editors would like to thank Frances White for her assistance with editing and proof-reading and for helping with research for the intro- duction to this volume. Pamela Osborn also provided invaluable edi- torialhelp.JohnIbbettgavegenerouslyofhistimeforconsultationand advice. Extracts from Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature, andMetaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch, published by Chatto and Windus, are reprinted by permission of the Random House Group. US rights to use extracts from these titles were grantedbyPenguin,adivisionofPenguinGroup(USA)Inc. We are also grateful to Paula Kennedy of Palgrave Macmillan for her constantencouragementandsupport. ix
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