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Afterlives of Modernism: Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique
Dartmouth College Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-1-61168-814-6 | Cloth: 978-1-58465-995-2 | Paper: 978-1-58465-996-9 Library of Congress Classification PS374.L42R68 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9112
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In times of liberal despair it helps to have someone like John Carlos Rowe put things into perspective, in this case, with a collection of essays that asks the question, “Must we throw out liberalism’s successes with the neoliberal bathwater?” Rowe first lays out a genealogy of early twentieth-century modernists, such as Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, with an eye toward stressing their transnationally engaged liberalism and their efforts to introduce into the literary avant-garde the concerns of politically marginalized groups, whether defined by race, class, or gender. The second part of the volume includes essays on the works of Harper Lee, Thomas Berger, Louise Erdrich, and Philip Roth, emphasizing the continuity of efforts to represent domestic political and social concerns. While critical of the increasingly conservative tone of the neoliberalism of the past quarter-century, Rowe rescues the value of liberalism’s sympathetic and socially engaged intent, even as he criticizes modern liberalism’s inability to work transnationally. See other books on: Liberalism | Modernism | Modernism (Literature) | Politics and literature | Transnationalism See other titles from Dartmouth College Press |
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Afterlives of Modernism: Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Dartmouth College Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-1-61168-814-6
Cloth: 978-1-58465-995-2
Paper: 978-1-58465-996-9
eISBN: 978-1-61168-814-6
Cloth: 978-1-58465-995-2
Paper: 978-1-58465-996-9
In times of liberal despair it helps to have someone like John Carlos Rowe put things into perspective, in this case, with a collection of essays that asks the question, “Must we throw out liberalism’s successes with the neoliberal bathwater?” Rowe first lays out a genealogy of early twentieth-century modernists, such as Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, with an eye toward stressing their transnationally engaged liberalism and their efforts to introduce into the literary avant-garde the concerns of politically marginalized groups, whether defined by race, class, or gender. The second part of the volume includes essays on the works of Harper Lee, Thomas Berger, Louise Erdrich, and Philip Roth, emphasizing the continuity of efforts to represent domestic political and social concerns. While critical of the increasingly conservative tone of the neoliberalism of the past quarter-century, Rowe rescues the value of liberalism’s sympathetic and socially engaged intent, even as he criticizes modern liberalism’s inability to work transnationally.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
