...Lloyd Pratt This essay argues that in his autobiographies, journalism, and speeches, Frederick Douglass carved out a new version of humanism that broke with both the liberalism individualism of Jacksonian America and the anachronistic civic republicanism espoused by white abolitionists. In addition...

... totalitarian threat” for the twenty-first century, as evidenced by such proclamations as the 2006 Euston Manifesto (“For a Renewal of Progressive Politics”). This discourse employs different names—“Islamofascism,” “Islamic totalitarianism”—but each signifies a tentacular threat to liberal democracy across...

... of Nebraska P, 1983 . Pollak , Ellen . “Moll Flanders, Incest, and the Structure of Exchange.” The Eighteenth Century 30 ( 1989 ): 3 –21. Rawls , John . Political Liberalism . New York: Columbia UP, 1993 . Richetti , John . Defoe’s Narratives: Situations and Structures...

...; and a belief in the utopian and critical possibilities of the aesthetic (as against the political), built on a critique of mass culture and the idea that successful art expresses the idea of harmony negatively. (102) I just wish this book about liberalism had turned these extraordinary synoptic skills...

... of the cognitive standards of liberal citizenship, statistical sciences around the time of the 1867 Reform Act reversed the usual priority given to the individual over the collective, redefining the self as a compilation of demographic and social information. When Anthony Trollope's 1867 Phineas Finn performs...

... The Woodlanders seems to foster sympathy for rural folk who get caught up and reconfigured in state fantasy, it ultimately indicts sympathy and, by extension, its appropriation by the modern liberal state. With its radical doubt about the stability of the subject and its incisive critique of the politics...

... it claims “to distinguish social agency from individual agency” (3), it treats agency in operation as fundamentally a liberal formulation, generated by interest (whether directly self-interested or not) and built on individual intentionality even at the collective level. What Vanden Bossche wishes to call...

... and readers. Even as Phineas Finn speaks the idiom of John Stuart Mill's liberal orientation toward feelings and beliefs, the novel's distribution of narrative focalization provides an alternative pedagogy in Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian orientation toward action. Reading the novel's form against its content...

..., the theoretical sophistication, the lucidity of the writing, and the commitment are impressive. We have had critiques of abstract liberalism, when formal or procedural equality masks material or substantive inequalities. And of bleak liberalism, that recognizes the barriers to equality and feels its way...

...Abby Scribner Abstract This article takes up two famously disliked nineteenth-century novels—Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charlotte Brontë's Villette —and argues that they are dissatisfying to readers because their protagonists fail to cohere as liberal subjects around a legible interior realm...

... of E. M. Forster . London: Chatto, 1963 . Benhabib , Seyla . Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics . New York: Routledge, 1992 . Born , Daniel . The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells . Chapel Hill...

... breeding ground for the new form of sovereignty he called “the will of the majority” or “public opinion.” This popular rule worked against the very form of self-sovereignty coveted by European liberalism and cultivated by the English novel to transform such individuals into an irresistibly powerful...

...—was fashioned as an implicit challenge to a tradition of moderate English liberalism that had failed to provide minorities with an adequate platform for redressing the systemic inequities caused by racial discrimination. The essay shows how The Satanic Verses is structured by an ambivalent and conflicted...

...Ian Duncan This essay analyzes the challenge issued by James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) to the liberal regime of early nineteenth-century British fiction. Hogg's novel narrates the formation and dissolution of the fanatic whose subject position...

...Ban Wang During his tenure in the Lu Xun Academy in Yan'an, the center of the Chinese Revolution, the novelist Zhou Libo ran a seminar on world literature. While teaching masterpieces of European novelists, Zhou developed a theory of the novel that inherited themes of liberal humanism...

..., that process; while a marriage plot, it mourns the sacrifices accompanying such a course rather than reinforcing marriage as a route to liberal notions of civic “happiness.” In addition, by revisiting the Middle Passage, it exposes the liaisons between a particular vision of democracy and the birth of finance...

... in the extranational space of the colony—including a number of novels concerning the Haitian Revolution that I examine here and, most prominently, the US redaction of Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal , titled The Slave-King — opens the possibility of modes of postgenealogical assemblage that far exceed that of liberal...

..., paying particular attention to the new interest in D. W. Winnicott and to the divergent ideological affinities—liberal versus radical—of various psychological frameworks. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 ethos ascesis method psychology literary criticism If one were to try...

... differences is central to the moral economy of mid-nineteenth-century realism. To live inside a liberal dispensation that takes its realist fictions seriously means recognizing the work that characters like Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations (and persons like ourselves) put into stories about our own...