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100			_a Anderson, Amanda.
245			_aBleak liberalism _c/Amanda Anderson,
260			_a, Chicago, 2016 _b: The University of Chicago Press _c, 2016.
300			_a x, 171 pages _c ; 24 cm.
365			_b1758
505			_a Bleak liberalism Liberalism in the age of high realism Revisiting the political novel The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing
520			_aWhy is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism makes the case for a renewed understanding of the liberal tradition, showing that it is much more attuned to the complexity of political life than conventional accounts have acknowledged. Anderson examines canonical works of high realism, political novels from England and the United States, and modernist works to argue that liberalism has engaged sober and even stark views of historical development, political dynamics, and human and social psychology. From Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Hard Times to E.M. Forster's Howards End to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, this literature demonstrates that liberalism has inventive ways of balancing sociological critique and moral aspiration. A deft blend of intellectual history and literary analysis, Bleak Liberalism reveals a richer understanding of one of the most important political ideologies of the modern era.
650			_aEnglish literature
650			_aLiberalism
650			_aModernism (Literature)
650			_aPolitics and literature
700			_aAmanda Anderson
942			_cBOOK
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