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Making Liberalism New : American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition
Title
Making Liberalism New : American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition / Ian Afflerbach.
ISBN
9781421440927
9781421440910
9781421440903
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (288 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"This book maps the rise of a modern liberal culture in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. It shows how modern fiction writers responded to central concerns in liberal political thought, such as corporate ownership, reproductive rights, colorblind law, and presidential character"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Hopkins studies in modernism
Contents
A liberal modernism. Liberalism incorporated : intellectuals, abortion, and the critique of possessive individualism
Racial liberalism : Native son and the problem of "color-blind" law
A modern liberalism. The inward turn : tragedy, documentary, and the making of the postwar liberal imagination
Ending in style : JFK, Nabokov, and the apotheosis of a liberal aesthetic
Conclusion: What's left of liberalism? (or: What's so new about neoliberalism?).
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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