Description: A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.
Review Quotes: "Psyche and Ethos is a resounding success" -- Jane F. Thrailkill, Victorian Studies
"Based on four lectures at Oxford University in 2015, Amanda Anderson's brief but trenchant book concerning her distinctive alternative to ideological critique in literary studies deserves the attention of anyone who has been following the debates about literature and the hermeneutics of suspicion." -- John Paul Riquelme, Boston University, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920"Anderson's argumentative strategy is promising and in broad outline compatible with some other recent defences against the challenge to morality (e.g. Sauer 2017). The way she puts literary sources to work in her argument is novel, refreshing, and illustrative; it shows how discussing the challenge to morality can benefit from novel, interdisciplinary perspectives on morality itself. Of course, many other aspects of the book deserve further attention, most pertinently the parts where she connects the discussion of the challenge to morality with an analysis of literary studies as a field." -- Michael Klenk, Metapsychology