The Moral of the story : literature and public ethics

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Literature and public ethics / Henry T. Edmondson III

Henry James' The Princess Casamassima : revolution and the preservation of culture / James Seaton

Love, law, and rhetoric : the teachings of Francesca in Dante's Inferno / Peter Kalkavage

Aliens are us? Walker Percy's response to Carl Sagan on wondering and wandering / Peter Augustine Lawler

Shakespeare's Henry V and the act of ethical reflection / Henry T. Edmondson III

Rabelais and Pascal : wise kings and anguished men / Pádraig Ó. Gormaile

Chinua Achebe and the nature of social change / Alan Levine

A place in the world : delinquency and the search for liberty in Cervantes' Rinconete and Cortadillo Juan José Sendín Vinagre / translated by Henry T. Edmondson III

The great-souled woman : Jane Austen as public moralist / Gregory R. Johnson. True and false liberalism : Stolypin and his enemies in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 / Daniel J. Mahoney

The alchemy of power and idealism : Dostoevsky's "Grand inquisitor" / J. Patrick Dobel

Democratic envy in Sinclair Lewis' It can't happen here / Paul C. Peterson

Natural right, conventional right, and setting things aright : Joseph Conrad's "The secret sharer" / Michael Platt

The beauty of middle-class virtue : Willa Cather's O pioneers! / James Seaton

Robert Penn Warren's Brother to dragons : complicity and the beginning of innocence / Judith Lee Kissell

Fatherhood and friendship in the modern regime : Jean Dutourd's The springtime of life / Will Morrisey

Mark Twain on democratic statesmanship : A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Robert M. Schaefer

Pagan virtue and Christian charity : Flannery O'Connor on the moral contradictions of western culture / Gregory R. Johnson