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UNINA9910959039703321 |
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Titolo |
New threats to freedom / / edited and introduced by Adam Bellow |
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West Conshohocken, Pa., : Templeton Press, c2010 |
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9786613533166 |
9781599473703 |
1599473704 |
9781280129285 |
128012928X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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New Threats to Freedom Series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Democracy - Philosophy |
Paternalism - Political aspects |
Social values |
Freedom of expression |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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On cover: "From banning ice cream trucks in Brooklyn to abandoning democracy around the world thirty great writers on cultural trends that are undermining our liberties." |
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""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone?""; ""1: The Decline of American Press Freedom""; ""2: The Closing of the Liberal Mind""; ""3: The New Dogma of Fairness""; ""4: The Urge to Regulate""; ""5: The Isolation of Today�s Classical Liberal""; ""6: Single Women as a Threat to Freedom""; ""7: The Loss of the Freedom to Fail""; ""8: The European Union as a Threat to Freedom""; ""9: Bad Political Theatre""; ""10: The Rise of Antireligious Orthodoxy""; ""11: Multiculturalism and the Threat of Conformity"" |
""12: The Tyranny of the News Cycle""""13: Transnational Progressivism""; ""14: Students against Liberty?""; ""15: Belief in False Gods""; ""16: The Fairness Doctrine""; ""17: The War on Negative Liberty""; ""18: The Abandonment of Democracy Promotion""; ""19: Ingratitude and the Death of Freedom""; ""20: The Anticapitalists""; ""21: The Rise of Mass Dependency""; ""22: Liberty and Complacency""; |
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""23: Threats to Philanthropic Freedom""; ""24: The New Behaviorists""; ""25: Cyber-Anonymity""; ""26: Shariah in the West""; ""27: Participatory Culture and the Assault on Democracy"" |
""28: The U.N. Women�s Treaty as a Threat to Freedom""""29: The Illusion of Innocence""; ""30: Orthodoxy and Freedom in International Aid""; ""Appendix A: An Old Threat in a New Garb""; ""Contributors"" |
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New Threats to Freedom In the twentieth century, free people faced a number of mortal threats,ranging from despotism, fascism,and communism to the looming menace of global terrorism. While the struggle against some of these overt dangers continues, some insidious new threats seem to have slipped past our intellectual defenses. These often unchallenged threats are quietly eroding our hard-won freedoms and, in some cases, are widely accepted as beneficial. In New Threats to Freedom, editor and author Adam Bellow has assembled an all-star lineup of innovative thinkers to challenge these insidi |
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UNINA9910957081203321 |
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Autore |
Cognard-Black Jennifer <1969-> |
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Narrative in the professional age : transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / / Jennifer Cognard-Black |
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New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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1-135-87942-7 |
1-135-87943-5 |
0-429-23390-6 |
1-138-81154-8 |
1-280-04835-2 |
0-203-50353-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 19th century |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Authorship - Collaboration - History - 19th century |
American fiction - English influences |
English fiction - American influences |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF CITED COLLECTIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ~You Are as Thoroughly Woman as You Are English~: Strong Femininity and the Making of George Eliot; ~The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof~: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New Professionalism; ~A More Living Interest~: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception; ~Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to the Average Mind~: High-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis; AFTERWORD; NOTES |
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Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era. |
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