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

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

These problems--from the abortion debate to the scope of executive power--remain an indelible feature of American politics.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Afflerbach, Ian, 1986- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Series:	Hopkins studies in modernism.
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Liberalism in literature. Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century. Modernism (Literature) > United States. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of 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?).