Format:
viii, 333 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781442630901
,
1442630906
Content:
"In Literary/Liberal Entanglements, Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson bring together ten essays by scholars from a wide range of fields in English studies in order to interrogate the complex, entangled relationship between the history of literature and the history of liberalism. The volume has three goals: to investigate important episodes in the entanglement of literary history and liberalism; to analyze the impact of this entanglement on the secular and democratic projects of modernity; and thereby to reassess the dynamics of our neoliberal present. The volume is organized into a series of paired essays, with each pair investigating a concept central to both literature and liberalism: acting, socializing, discriminating, recounting, and culturing. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the vivid capacity of literary study writ large to reckon with, imagine, and materialize durative accounts of history and politics. Literary/Liberal Entanglements models a method of literary history for the twenty-first century."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction. Toward a literary history for the twenty-first century
,
Posthuman capital, or I [heart] apocalypse
,
The wish to be an object
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Full content : Shaw's paratexts, social liberalism, and harmonization
,
Refreshments of revolutionary mood
,
Playing at judgment : aporias of liberal freedom in Kant's Critique of judgement
,
In Frankenberg's cafeteria : the small worlds of Highsmith's The price of salt
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The proletarian thirties and Canadian literary history
,
The corporate reconstruction of American literary history
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The empire digs back : Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the problem of knowledge production after empire
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"They make their own tragedies too" : Harvey Swados and postwar liberalism's discourse of dependency
Language:
English
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Liberalismus
;
Geschichte
