Literary: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century

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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century; Part I. Acting: Liberal Subjects and Objects; 1 Posthuman Capital, or I e & Apocalypse; 2 The Wish to Be an Object; Part II. Socializing: Aesthetic Autonomies and Collectivities; 3 Full Content: Shaw's Paratexts, Social Liberalism, and Harmonization; 4 Refreshments of Revolutionary Mood; Part III. Discriminating: Liberal Ethics and Literary Aesthetics; 5 Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant's Critique of Judgment.;In 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. Cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century Part I. Acting: Liberal Subjects and Objects 1 Posthuman Capital, or I e & Apocalypse 2 The Wish to Be an Object Part II. Socializing: Aesthetic Autonomies and Collectivities 3 Full Content: Shaw's Paratexts, Social Liberalism, and Harmonization 4 Refreshments of Revolutionary Mood Part III. Discriminating: Liberal Ethics and Literary Aesthetics 5 Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant's Critique of Judgment. 6 In Frankenberg's Cafeteria: The Small Worlds of Highsmith's The Price of SaltPart IV. Recounting: Literary Evidence and Liberal Narration 7 The Proletarian Thirties and Canadian Literary History 8 The Corporate Reconstruction of American Literary History Part 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 10 "They Make Their Own Tragedies Too": Harvey Swados and Postwar Liberalism's Discourse of Dependency Contributors Index.