03749nam 22007335 450 991013670140332120200424112023.00-226-92353-310.7208/9780226923536(CKB)3710000000907321(MiAaPQ)EBC4717455(StDuBDS)EDZ0001665993(DE-B1597)523174(OCoLC)960701281(DE-B1597)9780226923536(EXLCZ)99371000000090732120200424h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBleak Liberalism /Amanda AndersonChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (182 pages)Previously issued in print: 2016.0-226-92352-5 0-226-92351-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexWhy 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 liberalism has engaged sober and even stark views of historical development, political dynamics, and human and social psychology. From Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Hard Times to E. M. Forster's Howards End to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, this literature demonstrates that liberalism has inventive ways of balancing sociological critique and moral aspiration. A deft blend of intellectual history and literary analysis, Bleak Liberalism reveals a richer understanding of one of the most important political ideologies of the modern era.Liberalism in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismRealism in literatureModernism (Literature)Politics and literatureLiteraturePhilosophyLiberalismLionel Trilling.character.cold war.liberalism.modernism.neoliberalism.political novel.realism.Liberalism in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Realism in literature.Modernism (Literature)Politics and literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.Liberalism.810.9/3581Anderson Amanda, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut864164DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910136701403321Bleak Liberalism1928833UNINA