This work deals with the overlap between Iris Murdoch's fiction and her philosophy.

Hannah, the Unicorn, seemingly an image of persecuted virtue, fascinates those who surround her, some of whom plan to rescue her from her dream of redemptive suffering. But is she an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a mad woman, or a witch?

... Murdoch's own philosophical writings are not limited ... Philosopher, the Philosopher as Novelist (1986) which, while focusing on one specific novel, The Unicorn ... philosophical novelist in her own right but also in the development ...

Describes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.

A New York TimesNotable Book: An “ingeniously plotted” tale of tragedy, comedy, and small-town gossip (The New York Times Book Review).

Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went ...

... Iris Murdoch: The Novelist as Philosopher, the Philosopher as Novelist: 'The Unicorn' as a Philosophical Novel (Bern: Peter Lang, 1986); Miles Leeson, Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist (London: Continuum, 2010); Peter Hawkins, The ...

... Murdoch takes it to be, any more than philosophy is the universal quest for truth. As ... Novel (36.1), pp. 79–94 (p. 80). 4. There are a growing number of ... Novelist as Philosopher, The Philosopher as Novelist: 'The Unicorn' as a ...

... Iris Murdoch: The Novelist as Philosopher, the Philosopher as Novelist; 'The Unicorn' as a Philosophical Novel (Berne/Frankfurt am Main/New York: Peter Lang, 1986). Bagnoli, Carla, [MC] 'Moral Constructivism: A Phenomenological Argument ...