LEADER 03749nam 22007335 450 001 9910136701403321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-226-92353-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226923536 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907321 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717455 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001665993 035 $a(DE-B1597)523174 035 $a(OCoLC)960701281 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226923536 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907321 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBleak Liberalism /$fAmanda Anderson 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (182 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-226-92352-5 311 $a0-226-92351-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Bleak Liberalism -- $t2. Liberalism in the Age of High Realism -- $t3. Revisiting the Political Novel -- $t4. The Liberal Aesthetic in the Postwar Era: The Case of Trilling and Adorno -- $t5. Bleak Liberalism and the Realism/Modernism Debate: Ellison and Lessing -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhy 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. 606 $aLiberalism in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature) 606 $aPolitics and literature 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aLiberalism 610 $aLionel Trilling. 610 $acharacter. 610 $acold war. 610 $aliberalism. 610 $amodernism. 610 $aneoliberalism. 610 $apolitical novel. 610 $arealism. 615 0$aLiberalism in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLiberalism. 676 $a810.9/3581 700 $aAnderson$b Amanda, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0864164 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136701403321 996 $aBleak Liberalism$91928833 997 $aUNINA