... and Melville .” The Southern Review 25 : 3 ( Summer 1989 ): 549 - 562 . Williamson Allan . Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1974 . ADAPTATION LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE: BENITO CERENO AND ROBERT LOWELL'S LITERARY...

... at once liberal and radical, nationalist and internationalist. Brown Girl, Brownstones contains residues of a radical internationalist critique of globalized racism articulated by Black anticolonial activists of 1940s; however, its major antiracist currents reflect the ascension among 1950s activists...

... The title of Jesse Schotter's article in Genre volume XLII, numbers 1 & 2 was mistakenly listed as “Adaptation Liberal and Conservative: Benito Cereno and Robert Lowell's Literary and Radical Politics” in the Table of Contents and on the issue's back cover. The correct title, which appears...

...Maurizio Ascari Does Franco Moretti's notion of “distant reading” really provide a liberating and democratic approach to literature, as it promises? Far from opening new perspectives, distant reading may actually blunt our critical faculties, inviting us to inadvertently adopt biased views...

...Cecily Devereux This article considers Helen Fielding's two Bridget Jones novels as foundational texts in the genre of chick lit as it “produces, disseminates, and proliferates certain feminist and liberal subjectivities” (Butler and Desai 2008, 5). The focus is on tracing in these two novels...

... articulates a biopolitical poetics defying the conceptual oppositions between collective and individual, public and private, socialist and liberal. I contend that, with its combination of tropes from the genres of science fiction, utopia, and the western, The Place of Dead Roads functions as a pedagogy...

... in which the instability of the weird becomes problematic and is not simply to be celebrated as a site of liberation. Benjamin Noys is professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester. He is author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (2000), The Culture of Death (2005...

... with the present. Focusing on her last collection of poetry, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011), I reconsider how Rich's late lyrics articulate the desire for and aesthetic difficulty of what the anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli calls the “possibility of being otherwise” under late liberalism. Rich's late...

...Rafael Walker This essay argues that Ellen Glasgow's 1925 novel Barren Ground is an attempt to adapt literary realism, perennially viewed as the handmaiden of liberal individualism, to an age in which individualism was being replaced by more corporate and associational paradigms. To do so, Glasgow...

..., Theodore, and the film he inhabits ambivalently cling to the fantasy that the generic experience of white male alienation can remain unmarked and universal. The film's central relationship rests on Theodore misreading Samantha's genre of being through the codes of his own liberal humanist subjecthood...

... the material for this model largely from nineteenth-century British and French fiction and poetry, mining her archive for constructions of femininity that unhitch subjectivity from binary logics opposing oneness and individuality to sameness and totality. Such figures chafe against the liberal-humanist ideal...

... University Press , 1991 . Wolfe Cary . “Antinomies of Liberalism: The Politics of ‘Belief’ and the Project of Americanist Criticism,” in Lohmann Christoph K. , ed., Discovering Difference: Contemporary Essays in American Culture . Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press...

... "the neo-Marxist critique of modernism . . . with the older liberal-democratic critique" (63) exemplified by William M. Chace's The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. While the liberal-democratic critique reflected cold war politics by adopting an "equally oversimplified [binarism...

... critique of modernism . . . with the older liberal-democratic critique" (63) exemplified by William M. Chace's The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. While the liberal-democratic critique reflected cold war politics by adopting an "equally oversimplified [binarism] of democracy...

..., “to dissociate . . . American liberalism from the radicalism of the 1930s that seemed to mandate a reading of literature with the aid of political categories that were too crude and mechanical . . . [and] to establish closer and more sympathetic relations between intellectuals and the cul- tivated middle...

... quickly from his characters’ initial happiness to their recognition that the new, more genuine, and more liberated life they want to lead is fraught with logistical and emotional difficulties. These are, of course, the difficulties of breaking social decorum—but also those of transitioning from...

... establishment looking only to promote its liberal agenda and an ostensibly family-focused political establishment advocat- ing a mythical middle American desire for decency, Hollywood and Washington THE NEW "MARSHALL" PLAN 329 in fact work faithfully together...

... or subject would the contemporary political and global cultural discourse on development like to create, and how is the postcolonial novel implicated in this project? Adichie's Purple Hibiscus seems to endorse such a liberal consumer, but the material realities of late twentieth-century Nigeria prevent...

... Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2002 . Nussbaum Martha C. and respondents. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism . Boston : Beacon Press , 1996 . Nussbaum Martha...

... , 1952 . Nietzsche Friedrich . Beyond Good and Evil . Trans. Kaufmann Walter . NY : Vintage , 1966 . Perkin Harold . Origins of Modern English Society . London : Ark , 1969 . Pocock J.G.A. . “They Myth of John Locke and the Obsession with Liberalism.” John...