| Bodies and Things argues for the importance of corporeality and materiality in Iris Murdoch's fiction. Although Murdoch is customarily understood as a Platonist for whom the material world holds little interest, I suggest that she is actually deeply invested in the world around us. Using a material studies approach, I focus on her representations of bodies, objects, domestic spaces, and foods, concluding that Murdoch's descriptions of the external world contain a moral component that compliments her more explicitly philosophical work. |
