ABSTRACT
The study of ethical dimensions of literature could proceed by studying any work of fiction, Henry James's novels are particularly generative subjects for such scrutiny. Bioethics has entered a time of intensive and productive renewal. At the same time, literary elements that contribute to the ethical dimensions of literature the narrator's stance, point of view, and the reader's response, among others sit at the heart of this caring and generous novel. Henry James's The Wings of the Dove provides a majestic field for examining the ethical dimensions of literature that pertain to the work of bioethics. James is often described as a philosophical novelist. Ethical criticism provides methods to examine the relations between literary acts and human acts in the ordinary world, between the life one lives before and after having read a particular book, and between knowledge of art and knowledge of life, all of these culminating in the value and meaning of a knowledge of the good.
