Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature
offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and social
responsibility in works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick McGrath, Graham
Swift, Andrea Levy, and Jeanette Winterson. Mara Reisman argues
that through their writing, these authors reveal and upset
literary, cultural, and political fictions and encourage readers to
think carefully about language, power, community, and social
justice. The book examines moral issues in two different ways: how
books by these authors address morally complex social, political,
and cultural issues and how their books serve a moral function by
challenging readers to be socially engaged. Reisman provides an
in-depth analysis of The Remains of the Day, Asylum, The Light of
Day, Small Island, and The Daylight Gate and uses these books to
discuss twentieth- and twenty-first-century British politics and
culture. These books address a wide variety of issues often
associated with moral judgments: war, racism, adultery, maternal
neglect, murder, professional misconduct, witchcraft, and religion.
Despite this diversity and settings that range from the seventeenth
century to the late twentieth century, these books include similar
arguments about how empathy, personal responsibility, and civic
engagement can create more productive social relations and a less
divided world.
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