Bleak Liberalism / / Amanda Anderson
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| Autore: |
Anderson Amanda
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| Titolo: |
Bleak Liberalism / / Amanda Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3581 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Lionel Trilling |
| character | |
| cold war | |
| liberalism | |
| modernism | |
| neoliberalism | |
| political novel | |
| realism | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2016. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bleak Liberalism |
| ISBN: | 0-226-92353-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136701403321 |
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