Literary/liberal entanglements : toward a literary history for the twenty-first century / edited by Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson.

"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."--

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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