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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Marina MacKay Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 w
Catholicism, Character,
and the Invention
of the Liberal Novel Tradition
Marina MacKay
O ne issue that preoccupied novelists in the decades after the Second
World War was how to reconcile their inherited idea of the self...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 142–178.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Claudia Ingram Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m
“Fission and Fusion Both Liberate Energy”:
James Merrill, Jorie Graham,
and the Metaphoric Imagination
Claudia Ingram
I n July 1947 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the
doomsday clock...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Hugh Foley This essay argues that Robert Lowell’s poetry demonstrates a critical engagement with the liberal individual that he is not often given credit for. By examining Lowell’s handling of the pathetic fallacy, whereby the external landscape is made to match the mood of the observer, the essay...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Phyllis Lassner The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome , by Hirsch Pam , London : Quartet , 2010 . 296 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Liberalizing Twentieth-Century
British Literary History
The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Katie Fitzpatrick This article reads Lionel Trilling’s 1947 novel, The Middle of the Journey , through postwar controversies about the relationship between law and conscience. The 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials divided American liberals, who disputed whether fascism was best combated by fidelity...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... maturity and political liberty constitute the core features of a mythologized Anglo-Saxon racial inheritance, one shared by her novel’s white characters, and over the course of the novel, as its protagonist Jean Louise Finch rejects psychologically stunted and politically naive colorblind liberalism, she...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... private project of self-cultivation. The article critically assesses this position, traces its implications in Wharton’s fiction and nonfiction, and briefly reviews its place within the broader context of liberal thought from Kant, through Matthew Arnold, to Lionel Trilling. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and the pathological framing of trans people in colonial epistemologies. In a postcolonial novel set in the colonial Caribbean, these kinds of trans embodiment interrogate the nature-culture or human-nonhuman divide, allowing certain characters to feel at home in their trans bodies rather than, as per liberal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., middle-class women. Typically, the narratives’ protagonists ultimately abandon the idea of the free union, the novels often ending after all with a conventional engagement. Night and Day follows this pattern, but only to a point. It examines the free union as an opportunity for a more liberated life...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as a temporal problem. In doing this, Citizen demonstrates how the racial break represented less a rupture than a continuation—how the antagonisms of racialized citizenship under white supremacy are sublimated by racial liberal rule. Perhaps nothing in US history illustrates this shifting state of ambiguity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Gavin Jones Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road , has generated controversy since its publication in 1942. Critics either dismiss the work for its alleged celebration of liberal individualism and its denial of race consciousness, or else they argue that the book deconstructs...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...William Q. Malcuit This article argues for a reconsideration of T. S. Eliot’s early poetry—in particular “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”—as developing out of a particular American poetic tradition, one that replayed and reinforced important tenets of American liberalism and nationalism...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... postmodern relationship between the author and his or her characters. Such a newly envisioned dynamic has been understood as fiction’s response to the theoretical debate about the so-called death of the author and, more broadly, to the posthumanist discourse on the dissolution of the liberal-humanist subject...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
....” I would
argue that in American Pastoral, Roth, in the guise of his alter ego Nathan
Zuckerman, returns to a consideration of the sixties, but with a less satiri
cal, more elegiac voice. At the center of American Pastoral is Swede Levov,
the benevolent Jewish American liberal Roth describes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of black conformity with
white liberalism, or as a move away from an earlier, more radical protest
tradition. From this point of view, “white-life” novels were little more
than a fundamentally flawed attempt to produce literature that white
readers of the time would have recognized as “universal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 129–165.
Published: 01 June 2008
... University. By 1946,
Lionel had published books on Matthew Arnold and E. M. Forster, as well
as many of the essays that would be collected in the influential The Liberal
Imagination, which established him as a public intellectual in the mold of
George Orwell and Edmund Wilson.
Twentieth-Century...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 121–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
...” version of Colie Lee cannot really tarnish the image of Mockingbird ’s beloved Atticus. It is at once a testament to the power of literature and perhaps an indicator of mainstream literate America’s more liberal thinking about race that Mockingbird ’s fictional Atticus Finch has been taken lastingly...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 688–693.
Published: 01 December 2012
... feminist
activist Frances Gage in 1855 (qtd. in Olwell 1). As Olwell comments,
with the writerly pith and punch that are among her fine book’s many
pleasures, “Within the familiar idiom of liberal democracy, Gage’s exhor-
tation is exactly two-thirds intelligible.” Indeed. Possessive individualism...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of the Senator’s goals and methods appeared in either
of Hughes’s testimonies.
These considerations frame one of Chinitz’s most intervention-
ist moves, which is to prioritize Hughes’s political affinities to liberal
Progressivism—partly as a “corrective” (7) to recent scholarship claiming
him...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
... larger assessments of liberal discourse. The “shadowy region” Bigger registers between himself and the white characters— one he knows has been constructed by Jan and other white men—is a variation of Du Bois’s (1903 : 364) veil of double consciousness. And his sense that these same whites “held him up...
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