Literary / Liberal Entanglements : Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century / Mark Simpson, Corrinne Harol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harol, Corrinne, editor.

Simpson, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history.

Liberalism--History.

Liberalism.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction. Toward a literary history for the twenty-first century / Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson

Posthuman capital, or I [heart] apocalypse / Jennifer Ashton

The wish to be an object / Aaron Kunin

Full content : Shaw's paratexts, social liberalism, and harmonization / Michael Meeuwis

Refreshments of revolutionary mood / Jonathan Flatley

Playing at judgment : aporias of liberal freedom in Kant's Critique of judgement / Vivasvan Soni

In Frankenberg's cafeteria : the small worlds of Highsmith's The price of salt / Heather Love

The proletarian thirties and Canadian literary history / Andrea Hasenbank

The corporate reconstruction of American literary history / Jason Potts

The empire digs back : Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the problem of knowledge production after empire / Sina Rahmani

"They make their own tragedies too" : Harvey Swados and postwar liberalism's discourse of dependency / Sean McCann.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-3092-2

1-4426-3091-4

OCLC:

1054867946