Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Narrative Accounts of Liberalism

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 - 152 oldal
Maureen Whitebrook argues that literature, through both its form and its content, can expose and criticize liberal theory and point beyond it to a new political theory. She describes how 'literary political criticism' might be done, and demonstrates such criticism in four essays that expose the connections between specific political and literary texts. Fiction, Whitebrook concludes, does a better job than liberal political theory of examining the relationship between the individual and the State.

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Introduction Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens
1
Politics and Literature Liberal Political Theory and the Novel
7
Taking Responsibility
39
Limited Liberty
61
Obligation and Commitment
79
Integrating Personal and Political
101
Conclusion Living a Liberal Life
127
Index
147
About the Author
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Maureen Whitebrook is honorary research fellow of political science at the University of Sheffield and the editor of Reading Political Stories: Representations of Politics in Novels and Pictures (Rowman & Littlefield, 1991).

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