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02613aam a2200373 i 4500 001 EA53CA62084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 230605t20242024nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023019405 020 $a 1032494301 020 $a 9781032494302 020 $a 1032494239 020 $a 9781032494234 035 $a (OCoLC)1374818979 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56 E68 M35 2024 100 1 $a Malachuk, Daniel S., $e author. 245 10 $a Literature for a society of equals / $c Daniel S. Malachuk. 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2024. 300 $a viii, 230 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality's supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing hierarchies, and optimistically handing it over to time to make it happen. In contrast, loyal to equality as modernity's revolutionary invention, the writers examined here-from Mary Shelley to Gwendolyn Brooks to Ta-Nehisi Coates-envision "relational equality" as lately recovered by philosophers like Elizabeth Anderson and historians like Pierre Rosanvallon. Literary scholars need to reread these "pessimist egalitarians," too, though, for the discipline has failed them in the same three ways: i.e., attenuating and secularizing these writers' portraits of equality but most of all insisting the sympathy generated by reading these texts will, with enough time, "expand the circle" of humanity. For students and teachers of literature at the university level, this volume is a guide to those writings that champion equality as relational, sacred, and ours-not time's-to realize"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Equality in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $x History and criticism. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Malachuk, Daniel S. $t Literature for a society of equals $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 $z 9781003393740 $w (DLC) 2023019406 830 0 $a Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013828.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA53CA62084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search