Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism - Politics and Letters, 1886-1916

Informationen zum Autor Jock Macleod is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Griffith University, Australia. He is currently editor of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. Klappentext This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture. Zusammenfassung This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Advanced Liberalism, Journalism, and Literary Culture 1. Between Literature and Politics: The Massingham Network and the Institutions of Advanced Liberalism 2. The 'Self-Conscious Evolution of Humanity': Advanced Liberalism and the Politics and Culture of 'Life' 3. Advanced Liberalism and the Cultural Value of 'Life': Ethics, Aesthetics, and Political Economy 4. Writing the East End: Advanced Liberalism, Realism and Social Reform 5. Contesting the New: Advanced Liberalism and the Emergence of Modernism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Advanced Liberalism, Journalism, and Literary Culture 1. Between Literature and Politics: The Massingham Network and the Institutions of Advanced Liberalism 2. The 'Self-Conscious Evolution of Humanity': Advanced Liberalism and the Politics and Culture of 'Life' 3. Advanced Liberalism and the Cultural Value of 'Life': Ethics, Aesthetics, and Political Economy 4. Writing the East End: Advanced Liberalism, Realism and Social Reform 5. Contesting the New: Advanced Liberalism and the Emergence of Modernism Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: J Macleod, J. Macleod
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781349351602
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35160-2
• No. of pages: 239
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Journalism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Media, entertainment, information & communication industries, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy