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Contents: Introduction: the turn to ethics in the 1990s / David Parker -- I. Ethics, Literature, and Philosophy. 1. Deepening the self: The language of ethics and the language of literature / Simon Haines. 2. Martha Nussbaum and the need for novels / Cora Diamond. 3. The concept of dread: Sympathy and ethics in Daniel Deronda / Lisabeth During. 4. Against tidiness: Literature and/versus moral philosophy / Jane Adamson -- II. Ethics and Agency. 5. What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking? / Charles Altieri. 6. Moral luck in Paris: A Moveable Feast and the ethics of autobiography / Richard Freadman. 7. The unseemly profession: Privacy, inviolate personality, and the ethics of life writing / Paul John Eakin. 8. The patient writes back: Bioethics and the illness narrative / John Wiltshire -- III. Politics and Ethics. 9. Literature, power, and the recovery of philosophical ethics / C. A. J. Coady and Seumas Miller. 10. The literary imagination in public life / Martha C. Nussbaum. 11. Ethics in many different voices / Annette C. Baier. 12. Common understanding and individual voices / Raimond Gaita. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.