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Autore: Anderson Amanda Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bleak Liberalism / / Amanda Anderson Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-226-92353-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910136701403321
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