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1．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．——．．．．．—．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．一 1．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．——．．．．．—．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．一 A A Study of Lord Jim From the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism by He Meirong Supervised by Deng Yingling Submitted to Foreign Studies College In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English Language and Literature Hunan Normal University ChangshaMay，201 1 AbstractJoseph Abstract Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the most remarkable English writer of the twentieth century．His masterpiece Lord Jim is“the first psychological moral fiction before the appearance of moral fiction’’and has been seen as a landmark in modem English literature．Upon its publication，the novel has received high recognition from both novelists and critics．The popularity of the novel among readers and acknowledgements from the literary field help to establish the position of LD耐垅m as one of Conrad’S four most outstanding works by F．R．Leavis in his ThP Great Tradition，who points out that Conrad’S novels contain a “specific and representatwe moral meaning“． As a great moralist，Conrad claims that“the moral discovery should be the obj ect of every story’．Lord Jim is a perfect example of his writing credo，whose remarkable essence lies mainly in its insightfulness and concem for humanity and morality．The French critic Andre Maurois also says‘‘Conrad is a moral novelist；he told John Galsworthy that whatever you did，people would probe into your thoughts through your work·Thus， to understand Conrad，we should focus on analyzing these moral themes．’’ This thesis endeavors to analyze the theme of virtue ethics and political ethics in light of ethical literary criticism and probe into Conrad’S ethical views views implicated in this novel． This thesis seeks its direct and major theoretical resources from The Company We Keep：an Ethics of Fiction by Wayne Booth．This theory holds that the interpretation of literary works should trace back to its moral and h