Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Literature's Versions of Its Own Transmission of Values -- Being Ethical: Open, Less Open, and Hidden Dissemination of Values in English Literature -- Transcendental Ethics, Vertical Ethics, and Horizontal Ethics -- Agrammaticality, Silence and the Diffusion of Values:The Holiday of Language -- Beyond Virtue and Duty: Literary Ethics as Answerability -- An Ethical Narratology -- What Makes Literature Valuable: Fictions of Meta-Memory and the Ethics of Remembering -- "Unprofitable Excursions": On the Ethics of Empathy in Modernist Discourses on Art and Literature -- Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved -- Can Literary Figures Serve as Ethical Models? -- The Ethical Dimension of Cognitive Poetics and "A Mechanism of Sensibility" -- Ethics in Stone: The Architecture of the Raj -- The Dissemination of Imperialist Values in Late Victorian Literature and Other Media -- Prominent Values in Nineteenth-Century Histories of English Literature -- Impressionism, Fiction, and the Location of the Ethical -- Ethics and Aesthetics in Modern Literature and Theory: A Paradoxical Alliance? -- Literature and Ethics: Social Critique and Morality in the American War II Novel -- The Nightmare of History, the Value of Art and the Ethics of Love in Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters -- Ethics and Aesthetics in British Novels at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century -- Backmatter.