Literary / Liberal Entanglements

Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-21
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor277
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442630901

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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