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Anderson Amanda |
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Bleak Liberalism / / Amanda Anderson |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Liberalism in literature |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Realism in literature |
Modernism (Literature) |
Politics and literature |
Literature - Philosophy |
Liberalism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Bleak Liberalism -- 2. Liberalism in the Age of High Realism -- 3. Revisiting the Political Novel -- 4. The Liberal Aesthetic in the Postwar Era: The Case of Trilling and Adorno -- 5. Bleak Liberalism and the Realism/Modernism Debate: Ellison and Lessing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism makes the case for a renewed understanding of the liberal tradition, showing that it is much more attuned to the complexity of political life than conventional accounts have acknowledged. Amanda Anderson examines canonical works of high realism, political novels from England and the United States, and modernist works to argue that |
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