Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Mark Luprecht)
Part 1. Essays on Iris Murdoch’s Literary Works and Approach to Art
“Despite Herself”: The Resisted Influence of Virginia Woolf on Iris Murdoch’s Fiction (Frances White)
The Case of Murdoch and Canetti (Elaine Morley)
The French Connection: Iris Murdoch and Raymond Queneau (Miles Leeson)
“Near the Gods”: Iris Murdoch and the Painter Harry Weinberger (Anne Rowe)
“The Now So Unfashionable Naturalistic Idea of Character”: Reanimating Personhood from Under the Netto John Banville (David James)
“Robbed of Thy Youth by Me”: The Myth of Hyacinth and Apollo in The Bell (Pamela Osborn)
Rebarbative Wire? : Compartments and Complexity in The Bell and the Body (Rivka Isaacson)
Part 2. Essays on Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy
Puritanism and Truthfulness in Iris Murdoch’s Philosophical Ethic (Tony Milligan)
“The Revoltingly Contingent”: Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysical Bargain (Julián Jiménez Heffernan)
“The Most Intimate Bond”: Metaxological Thinking in Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch (Kate Larson)
“Can the Knight of Faith Be Like an Inspector of Taxes?”: The Black Prince as a Rendering of Fear and Trembling (Paul Martens)
A Fundamental Orientation to the Good: Iris Murdoch’s Influence on Charles Taylor (Matthew J. M. Martinuk)
Contributors
Index