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Book SynopsisIn Literary/Liberal Entanglements, Corinne 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson I Acting: Liberal Subjects and Objects 1. Posthuman Capital, or I Apocalypse Jennifer Ashton 2. The Wish to Be an Object Aaron Kunin II Socializing: Aesthetic Autonomies and Collectivities 3. Full Content: Shaw's Paratexts, Social Liberalism, and Harmonization Michael, Meeuwis 4. Refreshments of Revolutionary Mood Jonathan Flatley III Discriminating: Liberal Ethics and Literary Aesthetics 5. Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant's Critique of Judgment Vivasvan Soni 6. In Frankenberg's Cafeteria: The Small Worlds of Highsmith's The Price of Salt Heather Love IV Recounting: Literary Evidence and Liberal Narration 7. The Proletarian Thirties and Canadian Literary History Andrea Hasenbank 8. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Literary History Jason Potts V Culturing: Economics, Institutions and the Imagination 9. The Empire Digs Back: Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the Problem of Knowledge Production after Empire Sina Rahmani 10. "They Make Their Own Tragedies, Too": Harvey Swados and Postwar Liberalism's Discourse of Dependency 389 Sean McCann Contributors Index
