1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959039703321

Titolo

New threats to freedom / / edited and introduced by Adam Bellow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Conshohocken, Pa., : Templeton Press, c2010

ISBN

9786613533166

9781599473703

1599473704

9781280129285

128012928X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

New Threats to Freedom Series

Altri autori (Persone)

BellowAdam

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Democracy - Philosophy

Paternalism - Political aspects

Social values

Freedom of expression

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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."

Nota di contenuto

""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"";



""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957081203321

Autore

Cognard-Black Jennifer <1969->

Titolo

Narrative in the professional age : transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / / Jennifer Cognard-Black

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-87942-7

1-135-87943-5

0-429-23390-6

1-138-81154-8

1-280-04835-2

0-203-50353-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

813/.3099287

Soggetti

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



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.