Literary / Liberal Entanglements

Corrinne Harol is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.Mark Simpson is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

• IntroductionCorrinne Harol and Mark SimpsonI Acting: Liberal Subjects and Objects1. Posthuman Capital, or I ♥ ApocalypseJennifer Ashton2. The Wish to Be an ObjectAaron KuninII Socializing: Aesthetic Autonomies and Collectivities3. Full Content: Shaw’s Paratexts, Social Liberalism, and HarmonizationMichael, Meeuwis4. Refreshments of Revolutionary MoodJonathan FlatleyIII Discriminating: Liberal Ethics and Literary Aesthetics5. Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant’s Critique of JudgmentVivasvan Soni6. In Frankenberg’s Cafeteria: The Small Worlds of Highsmith’s The Price of SaltHeather LoveIV Recounting: Literary Evidence and Liberal Narration7. The Proletarian Thirties and Canadian Literary HistoryAndrea Hasenbank8. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Literary HistoryJason PottsV Culturing: Economics, Institutions and the Imagination9. The Empire Digs Back: Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the Problem of Knowledge Production after EmpireSina Rahmani10. "They Make Their Own Tragedies, Too": Harvey Swados and Postwar Liberalism’s Discourse of Dependency 389Sean McCannContributorsIndex