... before it is realized. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 fantasy liberal guilt Thomas Piketty realism science fiction Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has sparked skirmishes and even outright bloodbaths about everything from spreadsheets to hidden...

... American literature can always be written off as an attempt to appease liberal guilt, ultimately it is a necessary component of Duvall's unusually strong sense of responsibility to the texts and to the people and the social conditions that produced them and him. It is fortunate that Duvall...

... , Ian . Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History . Durham: Duke UP, 2005 . Born , Daniel . The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995 . Boutros-Ghali , Boutros...

... on Ishmael Reed's novel Flight to Canada , that revise the black characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin associated with subservience. Given that they reveal the “political ineffectiveness of white liberal guilt,” Tillet applauds these works for not condemning such characters to the dustbin of history (91). What...

... with appropriate extracts from Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Hartley, Beddoes, and others: with medical observations rising out of the subject/by a rational mystic . London: Lee and Hurst, 1798 . Born , Daniel . The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells . Chapel Hill: U...

... Gardens, Public Swamps: Howards End and the Revaluation of Liberal Guilt.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 25 ( 1992 ): 141 –59. Bradbury , Malcolm . “Howards End.” Forster: A Collection of Critical Essays . Ed. Malcolm Bradbury. New Jersey: Prentice, 1966 . 128 –43. Country Cottages...

... Subjects , and she begins by outlining how her own approach to the rise of the American gothic novel differs from more traditional psychoanalytic and historical methodologies oriented around what she calls the “guilt thesis” (21). Such methodologies find their origins in Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death...

... 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...

... counter-insurgency"; but Herbert stresses and perhaps overstresses the "guilt." Nevertheless, he is particularly in- sightful in demonstrating the rift between a puritanical, Old Testament vindictiveness and a liberal strain of Christian humanitarianism. His analysis of the links between the Rebel...

... to Christian monasticism and asceti- cism; to this Smith adds evidence that discourses related to medico-scientific notions of race and healing, the protoindustrial division of labor, and the atomized liberal-democratic citizen helped shape visions of the imprisonment experience: “Condemned to civil death...

... support to both positions, remark- ing that "everything we know about Austen and her values is at odds with the cruelty of slavery" but also that "it would be silly to expect Jane Austen to treat slavery with anything like the passion of an abolitionist or a newly liberated slave" (96). Said...

..., it is doubtful that even the increasingly "liberal" Godwin (who writes in an 1819 letter: "I am in principle a Republican, but in practice a Whig") would embrace the centralized mid-century police system (qtd. in Marshall 343). Godwin's connection to and distance from the middle-class...

.... By offering characters who expose liberal society’s effort to legitimate itself at the expense of those groups it has failed to care for, “Down by the River- side” also lays claim to special political resonance for the contemporary reader. This novella brings into focus a politics of abandonment...

..., Wideman shifts from this personal reflection into a kind of cultural commentary, from his artistic successes to their societal consequences. The pathos, tinged with guilt, is palpable: There is a whole issue of what happens when anybody, any black person in this country, gains a skill, gains...

... Africans who adopted Christianity and who had "hope for God's intercession and deliverance" (21). On the other hand, the song also invokes the politics of liberation theology ("Tell old Pharaoh/To let my people go") that inspired enslaved people to resist bondage, the authority of unjust laws...

... on the economic status of divorced and separated women in India, see Singh, esp. 1–17. 7 For a notable exception, see Anker 197 –98. However, Anker focuses primarily on the liberal subject of human rights rather than on India's gendered property law. 8 For an example of the former, see Miriam...

... on women in an unreconstructed liberalism—rather than an entrenched cultural hostility—that can be transformed through female sympathy as the basis for reciprocal familial relations. However, Brontë's and Eliot's depictions actually give rise to a paradox in which male authority relies on female sympathy...

.... Dewey , John . “Liberalism and Social Action.” 1935. The Later Works, 1925–1933 . Vol. 11 . Carbonbdale: U of Illinois P, 1981 . 1 –65. Dos Passos , John . “The Writer as Technician.” American Writers’ Congress . Ed. Henry Hart. New York: International, 1935 . 78–83. Douglas...

... of punishment within the terms of their own closed social world: Novel: A Forum on Fiction 43:3  © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 502 novel | fall 2010 Our own knowledge of someone’s guilt isn’t enough. We also need an exposer, an agent who exposes the defector [the un- or antisocial...

... historical moments when similar questions about guilt, grief, alterity, and responsibility have been raised. Although not always convincing (or clear) in its theoretical arguments and despite some unpersuasive remarks about the position of post-9/11 fiction in literary history, to which I will return...