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In The Company We Keep, Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature.

But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic will be... Read Full Overview

Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. "What he has succeeded in doing . . . is to establish that ethical values must enter into our experience of literature".--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review.