Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and index
Introduction: Ethical criticism and postwar literary theory -- Reading the "Heavy industry of the mind": ethical criticism and the Anglo-American academic novel -- Negotiating the university community: Lucky Jim and the politics of academe -- Scholar adventurers in exile: Nabokov's Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin -- Searching for goodness and the ethical self: Joyce Carol Oates's The hungry ghosts -- Professoriate in love: David Lodge's academic trilogy and the ethics of romance -- Performing the academy: alterity and David Mamet's Oleanna -- Campus xenophobia and the multicultural project: Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring -- Academic nonfiction and the culture warriors: "teaching the conflicts" in Gilbert and Gubar's Masterpiece Theatre -- Jane Smiley's academic carnival: rooting for ethics at Moo U. -- Conclusion: Ethical criticism and the academic novel beyond the culture wars
