Bleak liberalism / Amanda Anderson.

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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anderson, Amanda, 1960- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:	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. American literature. English literature. 1800-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	x, 171 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Bleak liberalism
Liberalism in the age of high realism
Revisiting the political novel
The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno
Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing.