| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
politics and letters |
| Author: |
MacleodJock., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
| Subject: |
Liberalism in literature. - |
| Subject: |
English literature - History and criticism - 19th century. - |
| Subject: |
English literature - History and criticism - 20th century. - |
| Subject: |
Politics in literature. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230391475An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Summary: |
"Literature, Journalism and Liberal Culture, 1886-1916" explores the ways in which the vocabularies of advanced or 'new' liberalism permeated English literary cultural discourse from the late 1880s to World War One. Drawing on a wide range of autobiographical and biographical material, this book reconstructs an extensive network of advanced liberal journalists, men of letters, and political theorists associated with key organs of the daily and weekly press, and demonstrates for the first time the network's importance in the literary cultural world at the turn of the century. Until now, liberalism's place in that world has been understood as something of a residual Victorianism. Through a careful analysis of essays and book reviews published primarily in the liberal press, the author traces out a set of cultural vocabularies related to but quite distinct from classic Victorian liberalism, revealing a much closer and more complex relation to the vocabularies of an emerging modernist culture. |
| ISBN: |
9780230391475electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230391478electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
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. |