Bleak liberalism Amanda Anderson
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press [2016]Copyright date: © 2016Description: x, 171 Seiten 24 cmContent type:- Text
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- Band
- 9780226923529
- 9780226923512
- 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
- Liberalism in literature
- American literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- English literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century
- Realism in literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Politics and literature
- Literature -- Philosophy
- Liberalism
- Class of Spring 2020
- John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities
- Fellow
- USA
- Literatur
- Liberalismus
- 810.9/3581 23
- 810.93581
- PS374.L42
- MS 4675
- EC 2450
- 89.12
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:PS374.L42 A53 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-0908 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
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