Literary/liberal entanglements : toward a literary history for the twenty-first century /
Literary/liberal entanglements : toward a literary history for the twenty-first century /
edited by Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson.
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. Toward a literary history for the twenty-first century / Posthuman capital, or I [heart] apocalypse / The wish to be an object / Full content : Shaw's paratexts, social liberalism, and harmonization / Refreshments of revolutionary mood / Playing at judgment : aporias of liberal freedom in Kant's Critique of judgement / In Frankenberg's cafeteria : the small worlds of Highsmith's The price of salt / The proletarian thirties and Canadian literary history / The corporate reconstruction of American literary history / The empire digs back : Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the problem of knowledge production after empire / "They make their own tragedies too" : Harvey Swados and postwar liberalism's discourse of dependency / Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson -- Jennifer Ashton -- Aaron Kunin -- Michael Meeuwis -- Jonathan Flatley -- Vivasvan Soni -- Heather Love -- Andrea Hasenbank -- Jason Potts -- Sina Rahmani -- Sean McCann.
"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."--
9781442630918
20179024817
Literature and history.
Liberalism--History.
Electronic Books.
PN50 / .L584 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. Toward a literary history for the twenty-first century / Posthuman capital, or I [heart] apocalypse / The wish to be an object / Full content : Shaw's paratexts, social liberalism, and harmonization / Refreshments of revolutionary mood / Playing at judgment : aporias of liberal freedom in Kant's Critique of judgement / In Frankenberg's cafeteria : the small worlds of Highsmith's The price of salt / The proletarian thirties and Canadian literary history / The corporate reconstruction of American literary history / The empire digs back : Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the problem of knowledge production after empire / "They make their own tragedies too" : Harvey Swados and postwar liberalism's discourse of dependency / Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson -- Jennifer Ashton -- Aaron Kunin -- Michael Meeuwis -- Jonathan Flatley -- Vivasvan Soni -- Heather Love -- Andrea Hasenbank -- Jason Potts -- Sina Rahmani -- Sean McCann.
"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."--
9781442630918
20179024817
Literature and history.
Liberalism--History.
Electronic Books.
PN50 / .L584 2017