Towards a New Literary Humanism

1. Introduction
Andy Mousley

Part I. Literature as Ersatz Theology: Deep Selves

2. Introduction
Andy Mousley

3. Faith, Feeling, Reality
Rebecca Styler

4. Virginia Woolf, Sympathy and Feeling for the Human
Kirsty Martin

5. Being Human and Being Animal in Twentieth-Century Horse-Whispering Writings
Elspeth Graham

6. Judith Butler and the Catachretic Human
Inge Arteel

Part II. Scepticism, or Humanism at the Limit

7. Introduction
Andy Mousley

8. Shakespeare’s Refusers
Richard Chamberlain

9. Why Eliot Killed Lydgate: ‘Joyful Cruelty’ in Middlemarch
Steven Earnshaw

10. Atomised
Jeff Wallace

11. Humanity Without Itself
Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter

Part III. Literature, Democracy, Humanisms from Below

12. Introduction
Andy Mousley

13. Mobilising Unbribable Life
Damir Arsenijević

14. HUM (-an, -ane, -anity, -anities, -anism, -anise)
Mark Robson

15. Humanising Marx
Deborah Mutch

16. Civic Humanism
Nigel Wood

Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Literary Theory, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy