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  1. Bleak liberalism
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    'Bleak Liberalism' advances a renewed account of liberalism, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the way liberal concepts, principles, and aspirations have informed novelistic art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain... more

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    'Bleak Liberalism' advances a renewed account of liberalism, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the way liberal concepts, principles, and aspirations have informed novelistic art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain and the US.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226923536
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    RVK Categories: HU 1520 ; HL 1071 ; HR 1453
    Subjects: Liberalismus <Motiv>; Literatur; Liberalism in literature; American literature; English literature; Realism in literature; Modernism (Literature); Politics and literature; Literature; Liberalism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressourcece
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    Previously issued in print: 2016

    Includes bibliographical references

  2. White Writers, Race Matters
    Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett
    Published: 2017; ©2018
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford

    White Writers, Race Matters explores the popular tradition of white-authored novels about racism in America. What explains their success, and what are their limitations? This study examines these questions through rich case studies combining... more

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    White Writers, Race Matters explores the popular tradition of white-authored novels about racism in America. What explains their success, and what are their limitations? This study examines these questions through rich case studies combining biography, historical analysis, close reading, and literary theory to map the significance of this genre and its ongoing relevance. Cover -- White Writers, Race Matters: fictions of racial liberalism from stowe to stockett -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- Epigraph -- { CONTENTS } -- { ACKNOWLEDGMENTS } -- Introduction: toward a literary history of racial liberalism -- {1}: Sympathy in Action: stowe, twain, and the origins of liberal race fiction -- I. A Political Genre? -- II. Beginning with Sympathy -- III. Racialism or Racism? -- IV. To Hell and Back with Huckleberry Finn -- {2}: How Does It Feel to Be a Trademark?: fannie hurst's imitation of life -- I. Unsympathetic Pictures -- II. Questioning the Stereotypes -- III. Women and Blackness -- IV. Collapsing Caricatures and Peola's Protest -- V. "If I Were a Negro" -- {3}: Jew Like Me: empathy and antisemitism in laura zametkin hobson's gentleman's agreement -- I. Recovering Laura Zametkin -- II. Literature, Liberalism, and the Jewish Question -- III. The Writing of Gentleman's Agreement -- IV. Awakening the Conscience of Bourgeois Liberalism -- Coda: Hollywood and Prejudice -- {4}: Desegregating Liberalism: radical identifications in lillian smith's strange fruit and killers of the dream -- I. Disloyal to Whiteness and Patriarchy -- II. Telling About the South -- III. Uncomfortable Reading: Strange Fruit -- IV. A Lesson Book for Radical Liberalism -- {5}: Queer Children and Representative Men: harper lee's to kill a mockingbird -- I. Popularity and Pedagogy: Mockingbird on Screen and in the Classroom -- II. Historicizing Nelle Harper Lee: Racism and Rights at Mid-Century -- III. Queer Identifications -- {6}: Speaking of Abjection: white writing and black resistance in kathryn stockett's the help -- I. Unpopularity: Writing While White -- II. Blackness Abjected -- III. Talking B(l)ack -- IV. Loving (M)others -- V. A Change Is Gonna Come -- {Afterword } -- { NOTES } -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780190687236
    Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.
    Subjects: Liberalism in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (383 pages)
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