Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Questions of Responsibility
Brendan Quigley

1

Chapter 1: Derrida’s Ethics of “Irresponsibilization”; or, How to Get Irresponsible, in Two Easy Lessons
J. Hillis Miller

15

Chapter 2: The Ethics of Irresponsibility: A Tale of Two Georges
Eugene O’Brien

37

Chapter 3: A Question of Responsibility and a Matter of Form: V. S. Naipaul’s A Way in the World
Shirley Chew

67

Chapter 4: “To my creditors I bequeath my body…”: Stock Market Suicides and the Allure of Self-Destruction in Victorian Fiction
Tamara S. Wagner

91

Chapter 5: Narrative Responsibility and the Sherlock Holmes Stories
Edward H. Cohen

109