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Author:

Afflerbach, Ian, 1986- author.

Title:

Making liberalism new : American intellectuals, modern literature, and the rewriting of a political tradition / Ian Afflerbach.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1900-1999
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Liberalism in literature.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
American fiction.
Liberalism in literature.
Literature and society.
Modernism (Literature)
Intellectual life.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235 - 261) and index.

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?).

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.

Series:

Hopkins studies in modernism

ISBN:

1421440911
9781421440910
1421440903
9781421440903

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1236897275

LCCN:

2020047921

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)