Virtue Revisited in the Novels of Doris Lessing
Author:   Seda Arikan
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Pages:   160
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
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Author:   Seda Arikan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032735252


ISBN 10:   1032735252
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Virtue Politics in Lessing’s Oeuvre 1.1 Political Romanticism and Absolute Belief in Virtue Politics 1.2 The Fracturing of Virtue Politics: From Suspicion to Disbelief 1.3 Harsh Criticism of ‘Pseudo’ Virtue Politics Chapter 2 The Ethics of Care in Lessing’s Fiction 2.1 Intersubjectivity: Familial Bonds, Friendships, and Relationships with Distant Others 2.2 The Extending Circle of Care from Personal to Global Relations 2.3 Caring for Animals, Human-Animals, and the Environment Chapter 3 Lessing’s Novels in Light of Sufi Virtue Ethics 3.1 Purifying the Garden 3.2 Eudemonistic Virtuous Life 3.3 The Path of Love To Conclude… Index

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Seda ARIKAN (she/her) is a Professor of English at the Department of English Language and Literature, Fırat University, Turkey. She studied as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies at Kingston University, London in 2012. She completed her postdoctoral study at Fordham University, New York in 2019. She has studies on comparative literature, philosophy & literature, ecology & literature, gender studies, and three monographs published in Turkish titled Iris Murdoch’s Novels in the Light of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Method (2014); Cefer Cabbarlı: (Non)Reflections in the Mirror (2019), which was honoured with Cefer Cabbarlı Award of 2019 in Azerbaijan, and Doris Lessing: A Philosophy of Life from Marxism to Sufism (2018), which was awarded the best monograph of the year on English Literature in 2020 by IDEA (English Language and Literature Research Association of Turkey, the member of The European Society for the Study of English). She is currently serving as the vice president of the Doris Lessing Society.

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