Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 "Give the Devil His Due": Judge Holden's Design in Blood Meridian; Notes; 3 "Antic Clay"?: The Competing Ethical Appeals of Blood Meridian; Notes; 4 "A Knowing Deep in the Bone": Cowboy Stoicism and Tragic Heroism in All the Pretty Horses; 4.1 John Grady's Constancy and the Idea of Fellowship; 4.2 John Grady in Paradise; 4.3 John Grady in Adversity; 4.4 John Grady After All; Notes; 5 "Like Some Supplicant to the Darkness Over Them All": The Good of John Grady Cole in Cities of the Plain; Notes

6 "Nothing is Crueler Than a Coward": No Country for Old Men and The Counselor as Tragic Fables of the Contemporary Southwest6.1 Squandered Worlds in No Country for Old Men; 6.1.1 Llewellyn Moss-"A Big Time Desperado"; 6.1.2 Anton Chigurh-"The Invincible Mr. Chigurh"; 6.1.3 Sheriff Ed Tom Bell-"A Man of This Time"; 6.2 Riding the Hellbound Train in The Counselor; 6.3 Conclusion; Notes; 7 Coda-The Good of Story in The Road; Notes; Bibliography; Index